Stress is ubiquitous in society. In our model, stressors translate into subjective stress via an appraisal process …. Stress reduces instantaneous utility of an individual directly and via a cognitive load argument. Coping can be functional …

differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

whether or not economic competitions in the laboratory indeed elicit physiological stress reactions. Our study examined the … subjectively perceived stress and the physiological changes induced by a well-established economic laboratory competition paradigm … subjective and physiological reactions that are indicative of mild stress. Furthermore, reactions that are thought to reflect an …

differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …

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 … raise physiological stress levels of subjects within our task. More importantly from an economic perspective, we can also …

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 …

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …

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 … stress levels of subjects within our task. More importantly from an economic perspective, we can also observe a corresponding …