Predicting Risk-Mitigating Behaviors From Indecisiveness and Trait Anxiety: Two Cognitive Pathways to Task Avoidance

Trait Anxiety and Economic Risk Avoidance Are Not Necessarily Associated: Evidence from the Framing Effect

According to previous literature, trait anxiety is related to the tendency to choose safety options during risk decision-making, that is, risk avoidance. In our opinion, anxious people's risk preference might actually reflect their hypersensitivity to emotional information. To examine this hypothesis, a decision-making task that could elicit the framing effect was employed. The framing effect i...

Predicting anxiety: the role of experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity.

Anxiety sensitivity (AS), the tendency to fear arousal-related body sensations based on beliefs that they are harmful, is a strong psychological risk factor for development of anxiety psychopathology; however, in most studies AS explains only a portion of the variability in anxiety symptoms. Recent theoretical and research work has suggested that experiential avoidance (EA), unwillingness to en...

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Ancient Anxiety Pathways Influence Drosophila Defense Behaviors

Anxiety helps us anticipate and assess potential danger in ambiguous situations [1-3]; however, the anxiety disorders are the most prevalent class of psychiatric illness [4-6]. Emotional states are shared between humans and other animals [7], as observed by behavioral manifestations [8], physiological responses [9], and gene conservation [10]. Anxiety research makes wide use of three rodent beh...

cognitive failure and alexithymia in predicting high–risk behaviors of students with learning disabilities

conclusions: these findings demonstrated that cognitive failure and alexithymia had important roles in strengthening and appearance of high-risk behaviors in students with learning disabilities. therefore, considering those problems, precautionary actions might be necessary. results: the results showed that high-risk behaviors had significant positive correlations with difficulty identifying fe...