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Stress and decision-making in humans: Performance is related to cortisol reactivity, albeit differently in men and women
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Acutely elevated levels of cortisol are associated with euphoria and reward-like properties related to sensation-seeking behaviour. Thus, acute stress and elevated levels of cortisol may promote risk-taking behaviour. High cortisol responders are more sensitive to immediate rewards than low cortisol responders. In this study we therefore tested whether acute stress in male and female subjects, induced by the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), affects decision-making as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and to what extent this is related to cortisol reactivity. Control subjects did not receive the stress manipulation. We specifically predict that high responders show risk-taking behaviour in the IGT compared to low responders and controls. The data show that the more (salivary) cortisol levels are elevated after the TSST the poorer the subsequent performance in the IGT in male subjects. In female subjects an inverse relationship between cortisol levels and IGT performance is observed: slightly elevated levels of cortisol after the TSST improve IGT performance, while highly elevated levels decrease IGT performance. Thus, acute stress as induced by the TSST affects decision-making behaviour of men and women differently and cortisol reactivity is associated with decision-making performance.
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“…respect to gender, the fi ndings are equivocal: roughly equal numbers of studies found interactions with gender (Preston et al., 2007; Lighthall et al., 2009; van den Bos et al., 2009) as did not (Starcke et al., 2008; Pabst et al., 2013b; von Helversen and Rieskamp, 2013; Kandasamy et al., 2014).”
Performance Under Stress: An Eye-Tracking Investigation of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT)
Simonovic, B., Stupple, E. J. N., Gale, M., & Sheffield, D. (2018) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00217 · Cited by 61
“Stress interferes with the learning process in healthy controls, increases risk-taking behavior and leads to disadvantageous card selections on the IGT (Preston et al., 2007; Miu et al., 2008; van den Bos et al., 2009; Robinson et al., 2015; Simonovic et al., 2017a; Starcke et al., 2017).”
BackgroundBarriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective
Hanek, K. J., & Garcia, S. M. (2022) · Social and Personality Psychology Compass · doi:10.1111/spc3.12706 · Cited by 81
Risk‐avoidant decision making increased by threat of electric shock
Clark, L., Li, R., Wright, C. M., Rome, F., Fairchild, G. F., Dunn, B. D., & Aitken, M. R. F. (2012) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01454.x · Cited by 68
Michailidis, E., & Banks, A. P. (2016) · Work & Stress · doi:10.1080/02678373.2016.1213773 · Cited by 66
“Other research has also indicated that when making decisions under high-stress conditions, individuals make riskier decisions (Van den Bos et al., 2009).”
BackgroundClimate Change and Poverty—An Analytical Framework
Bangalore, M., Stéphane Hallegatte, A., Bonzanigo, L., Fay, M., Narloch, U., Rozenberg, J., & Vogt‐Schilb, A. (2014) · doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7126 · Cited by 59
Akinola, M., Fridman, I., Mor, S., Morris, M. W., & Crum, A. J. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167977 · Cited by 57
Exogenous cortisol causes a shift from deliberative to intuitive thinking
Margittai, Z., Nave, G., Strombach, T., van Wingerden, M., Schwabe, L., & Tobias Kalenscher, A. (2015) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.11.018 · Cited by 55
Stress and Risky Decision Making: Cognitive Reflection, Emotional Learning or Both.
Simonovic, B., Stupple, E. J. N., Gale, M., & Sheffield, D. (2016) · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making · doi:10.1002/bdm.1980 · Cited by 56
“For example, van den Bos et al. (2009) found that high cortisol responses to a stress induction task, the Trier Social Stress Task (Kirschbaum, Pirke & Hellhammer, 1993), were associated with decreased performance on a subsequent IGT.”
Daily stress increases risky decision‐making in adolescents: A preliminary study
Galván, A., & McGlennen, K. M. (2011) · Developmental Psychobiology · doi:10.1002/dev.20602 · Cited by 56
Probabilistic Inferences Under Emotional Stress: How Arousal Affects Decision Processes
Wichary, S., Mata, R., & Rieskamp, J. (2015) · Journal of Behavioral Decision Making · doi:10.1002/bdm.1896 · Cited by 63
Gifuni, A. J., Perret, L. C., Lacourse, É., Geoffroy, M., Mbékou, V., Jollant, F., & Renaud, J. (2020) · European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1007/s00787-020-01550-3 · Cited by 56
Yang, L., Bauer, J. A., Johnson, R. E., Groer, M. E., & Salomon, K. (2013) · Journal of Applied Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0034413 · Cited by 58
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“Sex differences in the relationship between cortisol change and decision-making have been documented in some previous studies (e.g., the Iowa Gambling Task, van den Bos et al., 2009).”
ResultStress and strategic decision-making in the beauty contest game
Leder, J., Häusser, J. A., & Mojzisch, A. (2013) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.12.016 · Cited by 50
van den Bos, R., Davies, W., Dellu-Hagedorn, F., Goudriaan, A. E., Granon, S., Homberg, J. R., Rivalan, M., Swendsen, J. D., & Adriani, W. (2013) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.07.005 · Cited by 57
Worries of the poor: The impact of financial burden on the risk attitudes of micro-entrepreneurs
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van Hasselt, F. N., de Visser, L., Tieskens, J. M., Cornelisse, S., Baars, A. M., Lavrijsen, M., Krugers, H. J., van den Bos, R., & Joëls, M. (2012) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037820 · Cited by 53
Sex differences in the effects of acute stress on behavior in the ultimatum game
Youssef, F. F., Bachew, R., Bissessar, S., Crockett, M. J., & Faber, N. S. (2018) · Psychoneuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.06.012 · Cited by 52
Neuroeconomics of Emotion and Decision Making
Lempert, K. M., & Phelps, E. A. (2013) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-416008-8.00012-7 · Cited by 47
Koot, S., Baars, A., Hesseling, P., van den Bos, R., & Joëls, M. (2013) · Neuropharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.02.008 · Cited by 46
van den Bos, R., Taris, R., Scheppink, B., de Haan, L., & Verster, J. C. (2014) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00219 · Cited by 48
Walking the Tightrope: A Proposed Model of Chronic Pain and Stress
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Combined Effects of Glucocorticoid and Noradrenergic Activity on Loss Aversion
Margittai, Z., Nave, G., van Wingerden, M., Schnitzler, A., Schwabe, L., & Kalenscher, T. (2017) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2017.75 · Cited by 47
“In line with this presumption, several studies have reported that acute stress leads to increased reward sensitivity (Sinha, 2008; van den Bos et al, 2009; Putman et al, 2010) and decreased loss sensitivity in risky decision making (Pabst et al, 2013a, 2013b).”
ResultMaking Sense of Stress: An Evolutionary—Developmental Framework
Giudice, M. D., Ellis, B. J., & Shirtcliff, E. A. (2012) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5605-6_2 · Cited by 44
“Given the centrality of risk-taking and impulsivity in life history models of behavior, it is noteworthy that HPA functioning has also been linked to risk-taking behavior in standardized laboratory tasks (e.g., Lighthall et al., 2009; van den Bos et al., 2009).”
Metadata
- Authors
- van den Bos, R., Harteveld, M., & Stoop, H.
- Affiliations
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Venue
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1449-1458
- ISSN
- 0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2107723514
- Cited by
- 369
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 41 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 31 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 6.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- acute stress, cortisol response, decision-making, risk-taking, sex differences, Trier Social Stress Test, Iowa Gambling Task, salivary cortisol, reward sensitivity, sensation seeking
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Male, Psychomotor Performance, Risk-Taking, Saliva, Sex Characteristics, Stress, Psychological
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