#Affective decision making skin#

Additionally, increased autonomic arousal was associated with decreased risk taking especially when probability of winning was small 9.

#Affective decision making skin#

On the other hand, investigations linking physiological indices of affect to risky decision-making have shown that anticipatory physiological arousal indexed by skin conductance responses is associated with less risky choices 8. Yet, others found that anger leads to more optimistic risk estimations only in men but not in women 7. However, the opposite effects of anger and fear on risk taking were found depending on the decision context 5 or when the task involved estimating a social instead of a monetary risk 6. Previous investigations have shown that anger and fear were associated with a subsequent increase and decrease in risk taking, respectively 4. Most evidence on the impact of affect on risky choice comes from mood induction studies. Here, using a risky decision-making task and hierarchical Bayesian modeling, we investigated how self-reported affective experience fluctuates as a function of varying choice variables and how trial-to-trial variations in subjective affective experience influence risky decision-making in a dynamic context. The relationship between affect and decisions is complex because affective experience not only influences perception of decision options and subjective value computations but also is dynamic and continuously influenced by the encountered information in a decision context. However, despite an abundant literature on affect and decision-making, there is still a lack of understanding of the mechanisms for the continuous modulation of decision-making by affective experience. The recent theories suggest that affective processes modulate information processing and decision-making in a context dependent manner, wherein affective feelings are used as information by the decision-maker, influencing the ongoing subjective value computations 1, 3.

Previous studies have demonstrated affective modulation of decision-making under risk and uncertainty 1, 2. Affect and emotions have a central role in judgment and decision-making.