• Corpus ID: 894921

eview ecision making under stress : A selective review

@inproceedings{Starckea2012eviewEM,
  title={eview ecision making under stress : A selective review},
  author={atrin Starckea and Matthias Branda},
  year={2012}
}

• atrin Starckea, M. Branda
• Published 2012
• Psychology

Many decisions must be made under stress, and many decision situations elicit stress responses themselves. Thus, stress and decision making are intricately connected, not only on the behavioral level, but also on the neural level, i.e., the brain regions that underlie intact decision making are regions that are sensitive to stress-induced changes. The purpose of this review is to summarize the findings from studies that investigated the impact of stress on decision making. The review includes those studies that examined decision making under stress in humans and were published between 1985 and October 2011. The reviewed studies were found using PubMed and PsycInfo searches. The review focuses on studies that have examined the influence of acutely induced laboratory stress on decision making and that measured both decision-making performance and stress responses. Additionally, some studies that investigated decision making under naturally occurring stress levels and decision-making abilities in patients who