Stress Induces Contextual Blindness in Lotteries and Coordination Games.

A possible explanation for the highly significant connection across tasks in the stress condition is that stressed subjects habitually rely on one mechanism to make a decision in all contexts whereas unstressed subjects utilize a more cognitively flexible approach. stress contextual blindness lotteries coordination games risk taking National Science Foundation 10.13039/100000001 SES-1425062 University of Southern California 10.13039/100006034 Our first result is to show that subjects in both the control and stress condition behave in line with our theoretical predictions.

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