Depressive symptoms enhance loss-minimization, but attenuate gain-maximization in history-dependent decision-making

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 118-124

  Maddox, W Todd ^a   Gorlick, Marissa A ^a   Worthy, Darrell A ^b   Beevers, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Depressive symptoms; Gains; Losses; Punishment; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SENSITIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REWARD; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865306336     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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