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Decisions Under Distress: Stress Profiles Influence Anchoring and Adjustment
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People frequently make decisions under stress. Understanding how stress affects decision making is complicated by the fact that not all stress responses are created equal. Challenge states, for example, occur when individuals appraise a stressful situation as demanding, but believe they have the personal resources to cope, and are characterized by efficient cardiovascular reactivity and approach motivation. Threat states, in contrast, occur when situational demands are perceived to outweigh resources and are characterized by less efficient cardiovascular reactivity and withdrawal motivation. We randomly assigned participants to social-feedback conditions (i.e., positive or negative feedback) designed to engender challenge or threat, or a no-stress condition. Participants then completed an anchoring-and-adjustment questionnaire. Those assigned to the challenge condition adjusted more from self-generated anchors than those assigned to the threat condition. Cardiovascular responses mediated the relationship between condition and adjustment. This study demonstrates the importance of considering profiles of cardiovascular reactivity when examining the influence of stress on decision making.
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“For example, challenge, relative to threat, states have been associated with better decision-making (Kassam et al., 2009), higher perceived social standing (Scheepers et al., 2012), more approach-oriented behavior, and increased positive affect (Mendes et al., 2008).”
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“Further, men and women do not reliably show differences in patterning of physiologic responses during acute stress, so there is little evidence that there are sex differences in general approach versus avoidant (challenge versus threat) physiologic patterns (Mendes et al., 2008; Kassam et al., 2009; Jamieson et al., 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kassam, K. S., Koslov, K., & Mendes, W. B.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mendes, Wendy Berry
- ORCID
- Mendes, Wendy Berry
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1394-1399
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC2858778
- OpenAlex
- W2132965657
- Semantic Scholar
- bb552f007a6e75a5b9203286813bab750d7c8570
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 5.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL079383)
- 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 › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Keywords
- stress, decision-making, cardiovascular reactivity, anchoring and adjustment, social feedback, approach motivation, mediation
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Arousal, Cardiac Output, Decision Making, Electrocardiography, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Motivation, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Problem Solving, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Speech, Sympathetic Nervous System, Intuition, Self Efficacy, Feedback, Psychological, Young Adult
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