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Stress and Anxiety Effects on Valuation

NCT07252947 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2025-12-22

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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.

Conditions

  • Reward Value Level

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

Non-Stressful Control Task

Participants assigned to the warm water control condition will perform a non-evaluative task with warm water.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Candace Raio, PhD · NYU Langone Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-12-18
Primary Completion
2028-11-07
Completion
2028-11-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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