The impact of depression on social economic decision making
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Although the role of emotion in social economic decision making has been increasingly recognized, the impact of mood disorders, such as depression, on such decisions has been surprisingly neglected. To address this gap, 15 depressed and 23 nondepressed individuals completed a well-known economic task, in which they had to accept or reject monetary offers from other players. Although depressed individuals reported a more negative emotional reaction to unfair offers, they accepted significantly more of these offers than did controls. A positive relationship was observed in the depressed group, but not in controls, between acceptance rates of unfair offers and resting cardiac vagal control, a physiological index of emotion regulation capacity. The discrepancy between depressed individuals' increased emotional reactions to unfair offers and their decisions to accept more of these offers contrasts with recent findings that negative mood in nondepressed individuals can lead to lower acceptance rates. This suggests distinct biasing processes in depression, which may be related to higher reliance on regulating negative emotion.
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Depressed participants accepted significantly more unfair offers (61%) than controls (41%).
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- Authors
- Harlé, K. M., Allen, J. J. B., & Sanfey, A. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2010-05
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 440-446
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- PMC
- PMC2869467
- OpenAlex
- W2099015302
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 5.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2010-08-02)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R03 MH077058, R01 MH066902)
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Keywords
- depression, ultimatum game, unfair offers, emotional responses, cardiac vagal control, emotion regulation, negative mood, decision bias
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Decision Making, Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Game Theory, Games, Experimental, Humans, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Young Adult
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