Fear shapes information acquisition in decisions from experience

Cognition

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-99

  Frey, Renato ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^a   Rieskamp, Jörg ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decisions from experience; Emotional state; Fear; Information search; Risky choice; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HUMANS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84899133492     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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