No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder

Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with impaired decision making, yet few studies have adopted paradigms from behavioral economics to decompose which, if any, aspects of decision making may be impacted. This may be particularly relevant for decision-making processes relevant to known difficulties w...

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Main Authors: Zachary Anderson, Kim Fairley, Cynthia M. Villanueva, R. McKell Carter, June Gruber
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8577741/?tool=EBI
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author Zachary Anderson
Kim Fairley
Cynthia M. Villanueva
R. McKell Carter
June Gruber
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June Gruber
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description Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with impaired decision making, yet few studies have adopted paradigms from behavioral economics to decompose which, if any, aspects of decision making may be impacted. This may be particularly relevant for decision-making processes relevant to known difficulties with emotive dysfunction and corresponding reward dysregulation in BD. Participants with bipolar I disorder (BD; n = 44) and non-psychiatric healthy controls (CTL; n = 28) completed three well-validated behavioral economics decision making tasks via a remote-based survey, including loss aversion and framing effects, that examined sensitivity to probabilities and potential gains and losses in monetary and non-monetary domains. Consistent with past work, we found evidence of moderate loss aversion and framing effects across all participants. No group differences were found in any of the measures of loss aversion or framing effects. We report no group differences between bipolar and non-psychiatric groups with respect to loss aversion and framing effects using a remote-based survey approach. These results provide a framework future studies to explore similar tasks in clinical populations and suggest the context and degree to which decision making is altered in BD may be rooted in a more complex cognitive mechanism that warrants future research.
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spelling doaj.art-8ac91398d53d4b97a0d2e50911c833b82022-12-21T20:29:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-011611No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorderZachary AndersonKim FairleyCynthia M. VillanuevaR. McKell CarterJune GruberBipolar disorder (BD) is associated with impaired decision making, yet few studies have adopted paradigms from behavioral economics to decompose which, if any, aspects of decision making may be impacted. This may be particularly relevant for decision-making processes relevant to known difficulties with emotive dysfunction and corresponding reward dysregulation in BD. Participants with bipolar I disorder (BD; n = 44) and non-psychiatric healthy controls (CTL; n = 28) completed three well-validated behavioral economics decision making tasks via a remote-based survey, including loss aversion and framing effects, that examined sensitivity to probabilities and potential gains and losses in monetary and non-monetary domains. Consistent with past work, we found evidence of moderate loss aversion and framing effects across all participants. No group differences were found in any of the measures of loss aversion or framing effects. We report no group differences between bipolar and non-psychiatric groups with respect to loss aversion and framing effects using a remote-based survey approach. These results provide a framework future studies to explore similar tasks in clinical populations and suggest the context and degree to which decision making is altered in BD may be rooted in a more complex cognitive mechanism that warrants future research.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8577741/?tool=EBI
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Kim Fairley
Cynthia M. Villanueva
R. McKell Carter
June Gruber
No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
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title No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
title_full No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
title_fullStr No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
title_full_unstemmed No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
title_short No group differences in Traditional Economics Measures of loss aversion and framing effects in bipolar I disorder
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