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Article

Normatively Irrelevant Affective Cues Affect Risk-Taking under Uncertainty: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Skin Conductance Response, and Heart Rate Variability

by
Giulia Priolo
1,*,
Marco D’Alessandro
2,
Andrea Bizzego
1 and
Nicolao Bonini
3
1
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
2
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy
3
Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, 38122 Trento, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Brain Sci. 2021, 11(3), 336; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030336
Submission received: 19 January 2021 / Revised: 21 February 2021 / Accepted: 2 March 2021 / Published: 6 March 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue How Emotions Guide Decision-Making: Behavioral and Brain Mechanisms)
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Being able to distinguish between safe and risky options is paramount in making functional choices. However, deliberate manipulation of decision-makers emotions can lead to risky behaviors. This study aims at understanding how affective reactions driven by normatively irrelevant affective cues can interfere with risk-taking. Good and Bad decks of the Iowa Gambling Task have been manipulated to make them unpleasant through a negative auditory manipulation. Anticipatory skin conductance response (SCR) and heart rate variability (HRV) have been investigated in line with the somatic marker hypothesis. Results showed fewer selections from Good decks when they were negatively manipulated (i.e., Incongruent condition). No effect of the manipulation was detected when Bad decks were negatively manipulated (i.e., Congruent condition). Higher anticipatory SCR was associated with Bad decks in Congruent condition. Slower heart rate was found before selections from Good decks in Control and Congruent condition and from Bad decks in Incongruent condition. Differences in heart rate between Bad and Good decks were also detected in Congruent condition. Results shed light on how normatively irrelevant affective cues can interfere with risk-taking.
Keywords: decision-making; behavioral economics; psychophysiology; risk-taking; skin conductance response; heart rate variability; IGT; somatic marker hypothesis decision-making; behavioral economics; psychophysiology; risk-taking; skin conductance response; heart rate variability; IGT; somatic marker hypothesis
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Priolo, G.; D’Alessandro, M.; Bizzego, A.; Bonini, N. Normatively Irrelevant Affective Cues Affect Risk-Taking under Uncertainty: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Skin Conductance Response, and Heart Rate Variability. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030336

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Priolo G, D’Alessandro M, Bizzego A, Bonini N. Normatively Irrelevant Affective Cues Affect Risk-Taking under Uncertainty: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Skin Conductance Response, and Heart Rate Variability. Brain Sciences. 2021; 11(3):336. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030336

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Priolo, Giulia, Marco D’Alessandro, Andrea Bizzego, and Nicolao Bonini. 2021. "Normatively Irrelevant Affective Cues Affect Risk-Taking under Uncertainty: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Skin Conductance Response, and Heart Rate Variability" Brain Sciences 11, no. 3: 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030336

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Priolo, G., D’Alessandro, M., Bizzego, A., & Bonini, N. (2021). Normatively Irrelevant Affective Cues Affect Risk-Taking under Uncertainty: Insights from the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Skin Conductance Response, and Heart Rate Variability. Brain Sciences, 11(3), 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030336

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