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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Emotions influence risky decisions via physiological responses affecting subjective value.
  • Interoception, the perception of internal body states, may modulate this emotional influence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if interoceptive ability predicts loss aversion in risky decision-making.
  • To determine the relationship between interoception and specific components of value-based choice.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a heartbeat-detection task to measure interoception.
  • A monetary risky decision-making task was used to quantify loss aversion, risk attitudes, and choice consistency.

Main Results:

  • Interoceptive ability showed a significant correlation specifically with loss aversion.
  • No significant relationship was found between interoception and other measured value parameters like risk attitudes or choice consistency.

Conclusions:

  • Interoception selectively shapes loss aversion, a component of risky decision-making.
  • Valuation processes are influenced by both physiological responses and interoceptive awareness of these signals.