Publications by authors named "Aaron Laycock"
Article Synopsis
- People in dangerous jobs, like first responders and soldiers, have to make tough decisions quickly while facing serious risks.
- Researchers created a virtual game that simulates a life-threatening situation where players must make choices to escape a collapsing building.
- The study found that when under threat, players made more impulsive decisions and focused on quick rewards instead of thinking ahead, showing that stress can change how we make choices.
The underwood project: A virtual environment for eliciting ambiguous threat.
Behav Res Methods
December 2023
Threatening environments can be unpredictable in many different ways. The nature of threats, their timing, and their locations in a scene can all be uncertain, even when one is acutely aware of being at risk. Prior research demonstrates that both temporal unpredictability and spatial uncertainty of threats elicit a distinctly anxious psychological response.
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