Anxiety and Decision-Making: Evidence from Neuroimaging Studies

摘要

Conceptually, decision-making can be divided both temporally and functionally into three distinct processes: the assessment of possible options; the selection and execution of an action; and outcome evaluation. According to previous research, all of these processes could be influenced by anxiety. Specifically, anxiety is suggested to be associated with pessimistic outcome expectation, an increased likelihood of making risk-avoidant choice, and higher subjective costs of the negative outcomes.