Behavioral preference in sequential decision‐making and its association with anxiety

Zhang, Dandan; Gu, Ruolei

doi:10.1002/hbm.24016

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“…That is, the social frames influenced behavioral preference by modulating attentional allocation. But this hypothesis might encounter difficulties to explain why tDCS stimulation on the rTPJ did not affect individual decisions in the nonsocial framing (Gain/ Loss) task as well, since previous studies have shown that attention allocation also plays an important role in economic risk-taking (e.g., Yechiam and Hochman, 2014;Zhang and Gu, 2018).…”

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The Neural Mechanism of the Social Framing Effect: Evidence from fMRI and tDCS Studies

Liu

Liao

et al. 2020

J. Neurosci.

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As an important cognitive bias, the framing effect shows that our decision preferences are sensitive to the verbal description (i.e., frame) of options. This study focuses on the neural underpinnings of the social framing effect, which is based on decision-making regarding other people. A novel paradigm was used in which participants made a trade-off between economic benefits and the feelings of others. This decision was described as either a "harm" to, or "not helping," other persons in two conditions (Harm frame vs Help frame). Both human males and females were recruited. Participants behaved more prosocially for Harm frame compared with Help frame, resulting in a significant social framing effect. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Experiment 1 showed that the social framing effect was associated with stronger activation in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), especially its right part. The functional connectivity between the right TPJ (rTPJ) and medial prefrontal cortex predicted the social framing effect on the group level. In Experiment 2, we used transcranial direct current stimulation to modulate the activity of the rTPJ and found that the social framing effect became more prominent under anodal (excitatory) stimulation, while the nonsocial framing effect elicited by the economic gain/loss gambling frame remained unaffected. The rTPJ results might be associated with moral conflicts modulated by the social consequences of an action or different levels of mentalizing with others under different frame conditions, but alternative interpretations are also worth noting. These findings could help elucidate the psychological mechanisms of the social framing effect.

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The Neural Mechanism of the Social Framing Effect: Evidence from fMRI and tDCS Studies

Liu

Liao

et al. 2020

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“…These emotions and their neural network are controlled by frontal areas of the brain that are able to deactivate or reduce the activity of the areas related to emotional activation (e.g., Guendelman et al, 2017). Moreover, when human beings are anxious their perception of reality, and therefore of the disease, can vary, and it has been demonstrated that anxiety is associated with difficulties in decision making (for review, Bishop and Gagne, 2018;Zhang and Gu, 2018), but it has also been demonstrated that emotional regulation is followed by less risky decisions (Morawetz et al, 2019).…”

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Global Psychological Implications of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). What Can Be Learned From Italy. Reflections, Perspectives, Opportunities

Giorgio

2020

Front. Psychol.

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On December 31, 2019, the Chinese authorities announced that in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, central-eastern China, a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology had developed. A new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes serious problems like pneumonia and even death, has been discovered. This new disease (COVID-19) has spread also in Italy starting from the first recognized case on February 20. Beyond its biological implications, this coronavirus allows us many psychological reflections. A new virus is indeed a potentially serious problem for mankind, but it can also be an opportunity to bring the focus back to us, to observe what is happening, who we are and how we are reacting both as individuals and as a population. Even positive implication of this pandemic was discussed.

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“…Previous studies have shown that patients with trait anxiety show a choice preference for deck 1 or 2 in the IGT, [91] suggesting that deficits in social decision-making ability may be due to exaggeration of emotional feelings or emotion regulation deficits. [92,93] Emotional changes are associated with punishment or reward signals for the past and potential occurrence of an outcome, thus guiding long-term behavior according to the “somatic-marker hypothesis”. [85] In line with previous research reports, [94] our findings suggest that anxiety, caused by PI, can lead to impaired decision-making in terms of risk under ambiguous conditions.…”

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Impaired emotional memory and decision-making following primary insomnia

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Previous studies have indicated that sleep plays an important role in emotional memory and decision-making. However, very little attention has been given to emotional memory and decision-making in patients with primary insomnia (PI). We investigated whether PI influences the accuracy of emotional memory and social decision-making. We examined 25 patients with PI and 20 healthy controls (HC) using an emotional picture memory task and the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). In the emotional picture memory task, participants completed two testing sessions: an emotional picture evaluation and a delayed recognition phase. During the emotional picture evaluation phase, participants were presented with 48 pictures with different valence (16 positive, 16 neutral, and 16 negative), which they had to evaluate for emotional valence and arousal. During the recognition phase, participants were asked to make a yes/no memory assessment of a set of pictures, which contained the 48 target pictures intermingled with 48 non-target pictures. The performance of the participants with PI was the same as that of the HC in the emotional picture evaluation task. However, the PI group showed worse recognition of the positive and neutral pictures than did the HC group, although recognition of negative pictures was similar in the 2 groups. In the IGT, participants in the PI group more frequently selected cards from the risky decks as the game progressed and selected more disadvantageous cards than did participants in the HC group after the first block. Our findings suggest that insomnia had different effects on memory, depending on the valence of the memory. Specifically, memory performance was impaired for positive and neutral items, but the recognition of negative stimuli seemed to be more resistant to the effects of insomnia. Our results also suggest that decision-making, which is known to be mediated by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, including decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, may be vulnerable in PI.

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Behavioral preference in sequential decision‐making and its association with anxiety

Cited by 26 publications

References 131 publications

The Neural Mechanism of the Social Framing Effect: Evidence from fMRI and tDCS Studies

The Neural Mechanism of the Social Framing Effect: Evidence from fMRI and tDCS Studies

Global Psychological Implications of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19). What Can Be Learned From Italy. Reflections, Perspectives, Opportunities

Impaired emotional memory and decision-making following primary insomnia

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