Editorial: Twenty Years After the Iowa Gambling Task: Rationality, Emotion, and Decision-Making

Frontiers in Psychology

Yao-Chu Chiu¹ 

关键词: rationality;    emotion;    decision-making;    Iowa Gambling Task;    somatic marker hypothesis;    ventromedial prefrontal cortex;    expected value;    gain-loss frequency;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02353

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Traditionally, the role of “emotion” has received little attention in research studies of decision-making (Finucane et al., 2000). However, 20 years ago, the “Somatic Marker Hypothesis” (SMH) proposed by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio was introduced to explore decision-making under uncertainty (Bechara et al., 1994; Damasio, 1994). The SMH suggested that, under uncertain situations, second-level processing of the intact emotion system could facilitate rational decision-making in the long term. The core brain regions of the somatic marker (SM) system are believed to be located in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and orbitofrontal cortex, which integrate bodily signals from the peripheral to the central nervous system to create a response such as subjective feeling, and can also modulate and monitor decision-making (e.g., gut-feeling). The signals in the SM system can be regarded as a representation of certain positive or negative events or circumstances. In short, the intact SM system helps decision makers avoid disadvantageous choices or situations and instead consider advantageous choices or situations (Damasio, 1994, 1996).

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