Enhanced Risk Aversion, But Not Loss Aversion, in Unmedicated Pathological Anxiety

• Published in: Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 81; no. 12; pp. 1014 - 1022
• Main Authors: Charpentier, Caroline J., Aylward, Jessica, Roiser, Jonathan P., Robinson, Oliver J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 15.06.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety - psychology; Archival Report; Avoidance Learning; Case-Control Studies; Decision Making; Emotion; Female; Gambling - psychology; Humans; Loss aversion; Male; Memory; Psychiatric/Mental Health; Risk aversion; Risk-Taking; Young Adult; Risk aversion; Anxiety; Emotion; Decision making; Memory; Loss aversion

Anxiety disorders are associated with disruptions in both emotional processing and decision making. As a result, anxious individuals often make decisions that favor harm avoidance. However, this bias could be driven by enhanced aversion to uncertainty about the decision outcome (e.g., risk) or avers...