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- Title
Affective Response Predicts Risky Choice for Fast, but Not Slow, Decisions.
- Authors
Persson, Emil; Asutay, Erkin; Hagman, William; Västfjäll, Daniel; Tinghög, Gustav
- Abstract
We use skin conductance to measure emotional arousal in subjects who make risky choices under time pressure or time delay. Our results show a strong correlation between subjects' skin conductance responses and their risky choices under time pressure but not under time delay. Subjects were more risk taking for higher levels of measured electrodermal activity (skin conductance). In line with descriptive theories of risky choice, the effect was most pronounced for choices involving losses rather than gains. Taken together, our findings indicate that participants under time pressure rely on affect at the point of decision-making. This provides support for behavioral models that recognize the role of emotional brain systems in decision-making under risk.
- Subjects
GALVANIC skin response; AROUSAL (Physiology); TIME pressure; HUMAN research subjects; DECISION making
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, & Economics, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 4, p213
- ISSN
1937-321X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/npe0000096