{"pk":27553,"title":"Intolerance to uncertainty is associated with diminished exploration","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Across diverse cognitive and behavioral domains, humans confront a fundamental tension between exploiting currentknowledge about the environment and exploring the environment in order to acquire new knowledge. Individuals differ idiosyn-cratically in how they balance this explore/exploit tradeoff, although the sources of these individual differences have not beensystematically studied. In the current study, we sought to do so, in terms of trait-level affective phenotypes. Specifically, weinvestigated whether intolerance to uncertainty (IU), characterized by a negative disposition toward uncertainty, predicted bothrandom and directed exploration in a two-armed bandit task which manipulated decision horizon. We found that greater IU wasassociated with diminished exploration, both random (p<0.001) and directed (p<0.05). These results suggest the importanceof explicitly considering affective states and dispositions in human decision-making and also have psychiatric implications, tothe extent that IU is a transdiagnostic dimension central to a range of anxiety-related disorders.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tq5h4c8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lenow","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Nathaniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Daw","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"","last_name":"Phelps","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27553/galley/17189/download/"}]}