Acute stress affects risk taking but not ambiguity aversion

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 MAY, 2014, Pages

  Buckert, Magdalena ^a   Schwieren, Christiane ^b   Kudielka, Brigitte M ^c   Fiebach, Christian J ^a,d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Cortisol; Decision making; Gain loss domain; Risk; Stress; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SOCIAL STRESS; UNCERTAINTY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84904859451     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00082     Document Type: Article

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