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Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses.

ABSTRACT: Emotions have been proposed to inform risky decision-making through the influence of affective physiological responses on subjective value. The ability to perceive internal body states, or "interoception" may influence this relationship. Here, we examined whether interoception predicts participants' degree of loss aversion, which has been previously linked to choice-related arousal responses. Participants performed both a heartbeat-detection task indexing interoception and a risky monetary decision-making task, from which loss aversion, risk attitudes and choice consistency were parametrically measured. Interoceptive ability correlated selectively with loss aversion and was unrelated to the other value parameters. This finding suggests that specific and separable component processes underlying valuation are shaped not only by our physiological responses, as shown in previous findings, but also by our interoceptive access to such signals.

SUBMITTER: Sokol-Hessner P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263686 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses.

Sokol-Hessner Peter P Hartley Catherine A CA Hamilton Jeffrey R JR Phelps Elizabeth A EA

Cognition & emotion 20140611 4

Emotions have been proposed to inform risky decision-making through the influence of affective physiological responses on subjective value. The ability to perceive internal body states, or "interoception" may influence this relationship. Here, we examined whether interoception predicts participants' degree of loss aversion, which has been previously linked to choice-related arousal responses. Participants performed both a heartbeat-detection task indexing interoception and a risky monetary decis ...[more]

PMID: 24916358

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