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Prudence, Emotional State, Personality, and Cognitive Ability

We report an experiment to consider the emotional correlates of prudent decision making. In the experiment, we present subjects with lotteries and measure their emotional response with facial recognition software. They then make binary choices between risky lotteries that distinguish prudent from imprudent individuals. They also perform tasks to measure their cognitive ability and a number of personality characteristics. We find that a more negative emotional state correlates with greater prudence. Higher cognitive ability and less conscientiousness is also associated with greater prudence.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621817
Date28 October 2016
CreatorsBreaban, Adriana, van de Kuilen, Gijs, Noussair, Charles N.
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Dept Econ
PublisherFRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
Rights© 2016 Breaban, van de Kuilen and Noussair. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Relationhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01688/full

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