explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the … differently to acute stressors. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help …

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 …

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 …

improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four … experiment. The training technique we consider is a well-known psychological technique called "mindfulness", which is believed to …-related behaviours. We find evidence that mindfulness training reduces perceived stress, but only weak evidence on its impact on …

frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …

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 …

frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …

positively correlated with risk exposure and 2) the possibly choke-inducing stress accompanying financial uncertainty. In two … risk aversion and stress. …

frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …

frequency) to HF (high frequency band) ratio can be used as an index of sympathovagal balance or psychic stress. Our results … psychic stress and tax compliance and thus underscore the importance of moral sentiment in the tax compliance context. …