ERIC Number: EJ1014545
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Publication Date: 2013-Jul
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Enhanced Cardiac Perception Is Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Framing Effects
Sutterlin, Stefan; Schulz, Stefan M.; Stumpf, Theresa; Pauli, Paul; Vogele, Claus
Cognitive Science, v37 n5 p922-935 Jul 2013
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. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Perception, Cognitive Processes, Bias, Psychological Patterns, Adults, Human Body, Heuristics, Males
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