Stress Induces Contextual Blindness in Lotteries and Coordination Games

In this paper, we study how stress affects risk taking in three tasks: individual lotteries, Stag Hunt (coordination) games, and Hawk-Dove (anti-coordination) games. Both control and stressed subjects take more risks in all three tasks when the value of the safe option is decreased and in lotteries...

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Main Authors: Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, Ryan Kendall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00236/full