Enhanced Cardiac Perception Is Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Framing Effects |
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| Authors: | Stefan Sütterlin Stefan M. Schulz Theresa Stumpf Paul Pauli Claus Vögele |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg;2. Research Group on Health Psychology, University of Leuven;3. Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg;4. Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg;5. Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Nuremberg Hospital |
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| Abstract: | Previous studies suggest in line with dual process models that interoceptive skills affect controlled decisions via automatic or implicit processing. The “framing effect” is considered to capture implicit effects of task‐irrelevant emotional stimuli on decision‐making. We hypothesized that cardiac awareness, as a measure of interoceptive skills, is positively associated with susceptibility to the framing effect. Forty volunteers performed a risky‐choice framing task in which the effect of loss versus gain frames on decisions based on identical information was assessed. The results show a positive association between cardiac awareness and the framing effect, accounting for 24% of the variance in the framing effect. These findings demonstrate that good interoceptive skills are linked to poorer performance in risky choices based on ambivalent information when implicit bias is induced by task‐irrelevant emotional information. These findings support a dual process perspective on decision‐making and suggest that interoceptive skills mediate effects of implicit bias on decisions. |
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| Keywords: | Framing effect Cardiac awareness Emotion Somatic markers Decision‐making |
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