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  • Foraging for rewards in natural environments often occurs with predator presence.
  • Balancing reward pursuit and threat avoidance is a fundamental adaptive behavior.

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  • To investigate factors influencing the balance between reward-seeking and threat-avoidance behaviors.
  • To develop an ecologically inspired task to assess this balance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an ecologically inspired task in two large internet samples (N=374, N=702).
  • Examined within-participant dynamics (moods) and between-participant individual differences (questionnaires).
  • Employed a cross-sectional design to analyze behavioral regulation and trait influences.

Main Results:

  • Individuals regulate task-evoked stress through behavioral changes (increased foraging and hiding).
  • Apathy improved performance by reducing excessive checking, while somatic anxiety and compulsivity were linked to maladaptive checking.
  • Gender differences observed, with women exhibiting excessive checking.

Conclusions:

  • The developed task serves as a multifaceted paradigm for assessing threat-checking behavior.
  • The paradigm is sensitive to dynamic mood states and stable clinical dimensions.
  • It offers a potential objective measurement tool for future clinical studies on threat, vigilance, and behavior-emotion interactions.