relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under … stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly. Treatments are time pressure within the task and distractions through a … second task (a Stroop-task) that has to be performed as well and influences payment. We measure stress levels through …

relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under … stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly. Treatments are time pressure within the task and distractions through a … second task (a Stroop-task) that has to be performed as well and influences payment. We measure stress levels through salivary …

Many important decisions are made under stress and they often involve risky alternatives. There has been ample evidence … that stress influences decision making in cognitive as well as in affective domains, but still very little is known about … whether individual attitudes to risk change with exposure to acute stress. To directly evaluate the causal effect of stress on …

with productivity in an economic experiment and whether it depends on the content of the stress. In our first experiment we …Are productivity increases from small amounts of stress (or shocks) in an economic task dependent upon the content of … the shock? It has been found small amounts of stress can lead to an increase in memory. We examine if the same is true …