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Iglesias-Parro, Sergio; Ortega, Almudena; Fuente, Emilia I. de la; Martín, Ignácio

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“…Previous findings suggest that in monotonous tasks that have little cognitive requirement, individuals with moderate levels of arousal seek to maintain their arousal (Fischer et al, 2008). One way to increase arousal may be to explore both alternatives and thus to also take risk (see Iglesias-Parro et al, 2001). Possibly, this situation was more likely to develop in the Gain condition because losses are more arousing.…”

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To Take Risk is to Face Loss: A Tonic Pupillometry Study

Yechiam¹,

Telpaz²

2011

Front. Psychology

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The construct of risk taking is studied through the prism of the relation between tonic arousal and risk taking behavior. Several theories have proposed that high aroused individuals tend to exhibit risk aversion. We posit that this arousal–behavior association is activated much more strongly in risks with losses, as losses increase arousal and trigger relevant traits associated with the sensitivity to risk. In three studies we examined risk taking in experience-based decision tasks, with either token losses or relative-losses (in the gain domain). In Study 1 we found a negative correlation between pre-task pupil diameter and risk taking in the loss domain but not in the gain domain. In Study 2 we re-analyzed a previous pupillometry dataset involving symmetric mixed gains and losses. We found that the negative correlation in this mixed condition emerged even while the participants did not show loss aversion. This finding was replicated in Study 3. Thus, the effect of losses on arousal provides sufficient conditions for the moderation of the tonic arousal–behavior association. The findings suggest an important role for losses in the psychological and physiological experience of risk.

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To Take Risk is to Face Loss: A Tonic Pupillometry Study

Yechiam¹,

Telpaz²

2011

Front. Psychology

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Iglesias-Parro

Fuente

Ortega

2002

Theory and Decision

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Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making with social implications

Bernal

Salgueiro

Brzostowski

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Could social context variables prime complex decisions? Could top-down processes impair this priming susceptibility? Complex decisions have been mainly studied from economic and moral perspectives, and Dual Process Theories provide evidence of how these processes could be affected. To address these issues from a political perspective, online experiments were conducted. Participants (n = 252) were asked to choose a face from 4 options, each associated with different frequencies (repetition priming) or with phrases with different emotional valence (emotional priming), for an unspecified task (UST group) or an important task (IMT group). The most repeated face was chosen most in the UST group, and was associated with lower response times. Positive faces were equally chosen by both groups. To compare results in a more ecological situation, a social study was conducted during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Election, including online surveys (n = 3673) and analysis of news media mentioning candidates. The familiarity and trust to each candidate explained the voting-probability for most of them, as well as correlated with their frequency of mentions in the news, their positive associations, and election results. Our results suggest complex decision-making is susceptible to priming, depending on top-down modulation.

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To Take Risk is to Face Loss: A Tonic Pupillometry Study

To Take Risk is to Face Loss: A Tonic Pupillometry Study

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Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making with social implications

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