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Yingying Wang1, Ruolei Gu2, Yue-Jia Luo3
1Department of Sport Psychology, School of Sport Science, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Biological Psychology
|November 27, 2016
Summary
High-anxious individuals show altered emotional responses during decision-making. Trait anxiety interacts with incidental emotions, particularly affecting outcome evaluation in gambling tasks.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psychology
- Neuroimaging
Background:
- Trait anxiety influences emotional processing and decision-making.
- Understanding how incidental emotions affect decision-making in anxious individuals is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of incidental emotions on decision-making in high-anxious individuals.
- To explore the neural correlates of emotional influence during decision-making stages.
Main Methods:
- Participants performed a monetary gambling task.
- Behavioral and electroencephalography (EEG) responses were recorded.
- Incidental emotions were elicited using facial expression stimuli (control, neutral, fearful, happy).
Main Results:
- High-anxious participants exhibited smaller feedback-related negativity (FRN) amplitudes than low-anxious participants under control, neutral, and fearful conditions for small outcomes.
- P3 amplitudes were larger in high-anxious individuals compared to low-anxious individuals during fearful and happy conditions.
- Interaction effects between trait anxiety and facial emotions were observed during the outcome evaluation stage.
Conclusions:
- Trait anxiety modulates the processing of incidental emotions during decision-making.
- Emotional influences are particularly evident in the outcome evaluation phase for individuals with high trait anxiety.
Keywords:
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