Social anxiety, acute social stress, and reward parameters interact to predict risky decision-making among adolescents

Highlights • We tested effects of social anxiety, social stress and rewards on risk-taking. • Reward value influenced risk-taking in those with high but not low social-anxiety. • Social stress affected reaction time in those with low but not high social-anxiety. • Those with high social anxiety evid...

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Published in:Journal of anxiety disorders 2015-01, Vol.29, p.25-34
Main Authors: Richards, Jessica M, Patel, Nilam, Daniele-Zegarelli, Teresa, MacPherson, Laura, Lejuez, C.W, Ernst, Monique
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adolescent
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety Disorders - physiopathology
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Decision Making
Expected value
Female
Gambling
Gambling - physiopathology
Gambling - psychology
Humans
Male
Probability
Psychiatry
Psychological Tests
Reaction Time - physiology
Reward
Risk-Taking
Stress, Psychological - physiopathology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Uncertainty
Wheel of fortune
Youths
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Summary:Highlights • We tested effects of social anxiety, social stress and rewards on risk-taking. • Reward value influenced risk-taking in those with high but not low social-anxiety. • Social stress affected reaction time in those with low but not high social-anxiety. • Those with high social anxiety evidenced greatest RT on the most negative trials. • Effects of context and reward parameters depended on level of trait social anxiety.
ISSN:0887-6185
1873-7897
DOI:10.1016/j.janxdis.2014.10.001