The impact of threat of shock on the framing effect and temporal discounting: executive functions unperturbed by acute stress?. Robinson, O. J., Bond, R. L., & Roiser, J. P. Frontiers in psychology, 6:1315, 2015. Place: Switzerland
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Anxiety and stress-related disorders constitute a large global health burden, but are still poorly understood. Prior work has demonstrated clear impacts of stress upon basic cognitive function: biasing attention toward unexpected and potentially threatening information and instantiating a negative affective bias. However, the impact that these changes have on higher-order, executive, decision-making processes is unclear. In this study, we examined the impact of a translational within-subjects stress induction (threat of unpredictable shock) on two well-established executive decision-making biases: the framing effect (N = 83), and temporal discounting (N = 36). In both studies, we demonstrate (a) clear subjective effects of stress, and (b) clear executive decision-making biases but (c) no impact of stress on these decision-making biases. Indeed, Bayes factor analyses confirmed substantial preference for decision-making models that did not include stress. We posit that while stress may induce subjective mood change and alter low-level perceptual and action processes (Robinson et al., 2013c), some higher-level executive processes remain unperturbed by these impacts. As such, although stress can induce a transient affective biases and altered mood, these need not result in poor financial decision-making.
@article{robinson_impact_2015,
	title = {The impact of threat of shock on the framing effect and temporal discounting: executive functions unperturbed by acute stress?},
	volume = {6},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	issn = {1664-1078},
	doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01315},
	abstract = {Anxiety and stress-related disorders constitute a large global health burden, but are still poorly understood. Prior work has demonstrated clear impacts of stress  upon basic cognitive function: biasing attention toward unexpected and  potentially threatening information and instantiating a negative affective bias.  However, the impact that these changes have on higher-order, executive,  decision-making processes is unclear. In this study, we examined the impact of a  translational within-subjects stress induction (threat of unpredictable shock) on  two well-established executive decision-making biases: the framing effect (N =  83), and temporal discounting (N = 36). In both studies, we demonstrate (a) clear  subjective effects of stress, and (b) clear executive decision-making biases but  (c) no impact of stress on these decision-making biases. Indeed, Bayes factor  analyses confirmed substantial preference for decision-making models that did not  include stress. We posit that while stress may induce subjective mood change and  alter low-level perceptual and action processes (Robinson et al., 2013c), some  higher-level executive processes remain unperturbed by these impacts. As such,  although stress can induce a transient affective biases and altered mood, these  need not result in poor financial decision-making.},
	language = {eng},
	journal = {Frontiers in psychology},
	author = {Robinson, Oliver J. and Bond, Rebecca L. and Roiser, Jonathan P.},
	year = {2015},
	pmid = {26441705},
	pmcid = {PMC4562307},
	note = {Place: Switzerland},
	keywords = {Bayesian models, anxiety, depression, executive function, framing effect, stress, temporal discounting, threat of shock},
	pages = {1315},
}

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