ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2018
Decision-Making in Suicidal Behavior: The Protective Role of Loss Aversion.
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- Reliability of Decision-Making and Reinforcement Learning Computational Parameters.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Time and risk preferences and the perceived effectiveness of incentives to comply with diabetic retinopathy screening among older adults with type 2 diabetes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Investigating the Clinical Profile of Suicide Attempters Who Used a Violent Suicidal Means.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- An experimental investigation of the influence of loneliness on changes in belongingness and desire to escape.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2022Article
- Multimodal Elements of Suicidality Reduction After Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2021Article
- Translating Interventional Neuroscience to Suicide: It's About Time.Biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- Information Sources, Risk Perception, and Efficacy Appraisal's Prediction of Engagement in Protective Behaviors Against COVID-19 in China: Repeated Cross-sectional Survey.JMIR human factors · 2021Article
- Association of Loss Aversion, Personality Traits, Depressive, Anxious, and Suicidal Symptoms: Systematic Review.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2020Article
- Atypical Cortical Activation During Risky Decision Making in Disruptive Behavior Disordered Youths With Histories of Suicidal Ideation.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundLoss aversion is a central and well operationalized trait behavior that describes the tendency for humans to strongly prefer avoiding losses to making equivalent gains. Human decision-making is thus biased toward safer choices.
aimThe aim of this study was to explore the relationship between loss aversion and suicidal behavior in a large cohort of adolescents recruited in 30 schools of seven European countries for a longitudinal study (Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN65120704). We hypothesized that individuals with higher loss aversion would be less likely to attempt suicide.
methodsA mixed monetary gamble task was used to generate loss aversion scores for each participant. Logistic regression was used to estimate the cross-sectional association between loss aversion and life-time suicide attempts in the baseline sample (
resultsLoss aversion was a significant predictor of attempted suicide in both the cross-sectional (OR = 0.79;
conclusionThis and previous studies suggest that altered decision-making is involved in suicide attempts. In our study, we show the involvement of loss aversion in particular, and propose that individuals high in loss aversion are discouraged from carrying out the suicide attempt because of a greater focus on the negative consequences of the decision.
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