The relationship between anxiety and risk taking is moderated by ambiguity
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- 作者：Andrew R. Smith ; smithar3@appstate.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Eva E. Ebert ; Joshua J. Broman-Fulks
- 关键词：Risk taking ; Anxiety ; Uncertainty ; Ambiguity ; Decision making ; BART
- 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：June 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：95
- 期：Complete
- 页码：40-44
- 全文大小：353 K
文摘
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We examined the relationship between anxiety and risk-taking behavior.
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The outcome likelihoods were manipulated to be relatively ambiguous or unambiguous.
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When likelihoods were ambiguous, high anxiety predicted less risk taking.
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When likelihoods were unambiguous, anxiety and risk taking were unrelated.