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Stress and Anxiety Effects on Valuation
Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Summary
The purpose of this study is to understand how stress, anxiety, and negative affect change learning and decision-making processes. The primary objective is to assess two forms of decision-making-reward adaptation and emotion prediction errors-differ as a function of stress and anxiety. The secondary objectives are to assess how individual differences measured in our studies relate to these decision variables.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2025-12-18
Completion Date
2028-11-07
Last Updated
2025-12-22
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Task (SECPT)
The SECPT is a validated laboratory stressor that combines physiological stress with social evaluative components; it is widely used to elicit acute stress responses in controlled settings. Participants are asked to submerge their nondominant hand into an ice-cold water (0-4°C) for 3 minutes, while videotaped and observed by one neutral-faced experimenter.
Non-Stressful Control Task
Participants assigned to the warm water control condition will perform a non-evaluative task with warm water.
Locations (1)
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, United States