To take risk is to face loss: A tonic pupillometry study

The construct of risk taking is studied through the prism of the relation between tonic arousal and risk taking behavior. Several theories have proposed that high aroused individuals tend to exhibit risk aversion. We posit that this arousal-behavior association is activated much more strongly in ris...

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Main Authors: Eldad eYechiam, Ariel eTelpaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00344/full