Risk-avoidant decision making increased by threat of electric shock

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1436-1443

  Clark, Luke ^a   Li, Ruoran ^a   Wright, Chelsea M ^a   Rome, Farima ^a   Fairchild, Graeme ^b   Dunn, Barnaby D ^c   Aitken, Michael R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Framing; Gambling; Risk taking; Stress; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866391028     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01454.x     Document Type: Article

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