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 …