Differential effects of social stress on laboratory-based decision-making are related to both impulsive personality traits and gender.
Cogn Emot
; 29(8): 1475-85, 2015.
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| ID: mdl-25506765
ABSTRACT
Urgency is the tendency to make impulsive decisions under extreme positive or negative emotional states. Stress, gender and impulsive personality traits are all known to influence decision-making, but no studies have examined the interplay of all of these factors. We exposed 78 men and women to a stress or a non-stress condition, and then administered the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. We found that stress effects varied as a function of gender and urgency traits. Under stress, women low in negative urgency and men high in negative urgency made fewer risky decisions. Positive urgency yielded a similar pattern. Thus, decisions under stress depend on a complex interplay between gender and impulsive personality traits. These findings have implications for clinical disorders, such as substance use disorders, in which there are known deficits in decision-making and high levels of impulsive traits.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Personalidade
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Estresse Psicológico
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Caracteres Sexuais
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Tomada de Decisões
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Comportamento Impulsivo
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article