Catastrophizing and risk-taking

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  • who: Alexandra C. Pike from the Department of Psychology Institute, University of York have published the research work: Catastrophizing and Risk-Taking, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors show that increased self-reported catastrophizing may be associated with reduced measures of risk-taking but were unable to identify a computational correlate of this effect. The authors set out to investigate the specific cognitive processes associated with catastrophizing using a battery of cognitive tasks, including one measuring risk-taking. The authors propose that catastrophizing results in increased avoidance and heightened risk aversion. The authors demonstrate . . .

     

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