Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses
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Emotions have been proposed to inform risky decision-making through the influence of affective physiological responses on subjective value. The ability to perceive internal body states, or "interoception" may influence this relationship. Here, we examined whether interoception predicts participants' degree of loss aversion, which has been previously linked to choice-related arousal responses. Participants performed both a heartbeat-detection task indexing interoception and a risky monetary decision-making task, from which loss aversion, risk attitudes and choice consistency were parametrically measured. Interoceptive ability correlated selectively with loss aversion and was unrelated to the other value parameters. This finding suggests that specific and separable component processes underlying valuation are shaped not only by our physiological responses, as shown in previous findings, but also by our interoceptive access to such signals.
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Cardiac perception has been associated with multiple abilities, such as emotion processing and learning and decision-making.
“While cardiac perception has been associated with multiple abilities, such as emotion processing (Ferguson and Katkin, 1996; Pollatos, Gramann, et al., 2007; Wiens et al., 2000; Critchley, Wiens, Rotshtein, Ohman, and Dolan, 2004), and learning and decision-making (Sokol-Hessner et al., 2014; Werner, Jung, Duschek, and Schandry, 2009)”
From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Sokol-Hessner et al., 2014
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIndividuals with better interoceptive accuracy are more loss-averse.
“Results confirmed their prediction, demonstrating that individuals with better interoceptive accuracy were more loss-averse”
From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Sokol-Hessner et al., 2014
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- Authors
- Sokol-Hessner, P., Hartley, C. A., Hamilton, J. R., & Phelps, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- New York University (US)
- Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Phelps, Elizabeth A.
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-06-11
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 695-701
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- PMC
- PMC4263686
- OpenAlex
- W2126748078
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 3.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (AG039283, R01AG039283)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- interoception, loss aversion, risky decision making, subjective value, heartbeat detection, risk preferences, decision consistency, monetary choice
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Arousal, Decision Making, Emotions, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Risk Reduction Behavior, Young Adult, Interoception
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