TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential effects of social stress on laboratory-based decision-making are related to both impulsive personality traits and gender
AU - Wise, Richard Julian
AU - Phung, Alissa
AU - Labuschagne, Izelle
AU - Stout, Julie C
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Urgency is the tendency to make impulsive decisions under extreme positive or negative emotional states. Stress, gender and impulsive personality traits are all known to influence decision-making, but no studies have examined the interplay of all of these factors. We exposed 78 men and women to a stress or a non-stress condition, and then administered the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. We found that stress effects varied as a function of gender and urgency traits. Under stress, women low in negative urgency and men high in negative urgency made fewer risky decisions. Positive urgency yielded a similar pattern. Thus, decisions under stress depend on a complex interplay between gender and impulsive personality traits. These findings have implications for clinical disorders, such as substance use disorders, in which there are known deficits in decision-making and high levels of impulsive traits.
AB - Urgency is the tendency to make impulsive decisions under extreme positive or negative emotional states. Stress, gender and impulsive personality traits are all known to influence decision-making, but no studies have examined the interplay of all of these factors. We exposed 78 men and women to a stress or a non-stress condition, and then administered the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. We found that stress effects varied as a function of gender and urgency traits. Under stress, women low in negative urgency and men high in negative urgency made fewer risky decisions. Positive urgency yielded a similar pattern. Thus, decisions under stress depend on a complex interplay between gender and impulsive personality traits. These findings have implications for clinical disorders, such as substance use disorders, in which there are known deficits in decision-making and high levels of impulsive traits.
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02699931.2014.989815
U2 - 10.1080/02699931.2014.989815
DO - 10.1080/02699931.2014.989815
M3 - Article
VL - 29
SP - 1475
EP - 1485
JO - Cognition and Emotion
JF - Cognition and Emotion
SN - 0269-9931
IS - 8
ER -