The effect of acute pain on risky and intertemporal choice |
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| Authors: | Lina Koppel David Andersson India Morrison Kinga Posadzy Daniel Västfjäll |
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| Institution: | 1.Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine,Link?ping University,Link?ping,Sweden;2.JEDI Lab, Division of Economics, Department of Management and Engineering,Link?ping University,Link?ping,Sweden;3.Division of Psychology, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning,Link?ping University,Link?ping,Sweden;4.Decision Research,Eugene,USA;5.National Center for Priority Setting in Health Care, Department of Medical and Health Sciences,Link?ping University,Link?ping,Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Pain is a highly salient and attention-demanding experience that motivates people to act. We investigated the effect of pain on decision making by delivering acute thermal pain to participants’ forearm while they made risky and intertemporal choices involving money. Participants (n = 107) were more risk seeking under pain than in a no-pain control condition when decisions involved gains but not when they involved equivalent losses. Pain also resulted in greater preference for immediate (smaller) over future (larger) monetary rewards. We interpret these results as a motivation to offset the aversive, pain-induced state, where monetary rewards become more appealing under pain than under no pain and when delivered sooner rather than later. Our findings add to the long-standing debate regarding the role of intuition and reflection in decision making. |
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