RT Journal Article
T1 Enhancing cognitive control of our decisions: Making the most of humor during the IGT in females and males
A1 Flores-Torres, Jorge
A1 McRae, Kateri
A1 Campos-Arteaga, Germán
A1 Gómez-Pérez, Lidia
K1 Humor (Psicología)
K1 Toma de decisiones
AB We studied the impact of humor on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) decision-making performance and the cognitive control exerted during this task, considering sex as a moderator, and examined whether cognitive control mediated the infuence of humor on decision-making. Sixty participants (30 females) performed an extended version of the IGT (500 trials divided into 20 blocks). We randomly assigned them to either an experimental group (Humor Group; Hg; n=30), where humorous videos were interspersed in the decision-making trials or a control group (Non-Humor Group; NHg; n=30), where nonhumorous videos were interspersed in the decision-making trials. We recorded participant performance and feedback-related negativity (FRN) and P3b event-related potentials (ERP) during IGT feedback as task monitoring and attention allocation indicators, respectively. We expected that whereas humor would improve IGT decision-making under risk in females during the last blocks (17–20) as well as cognitive control (specifcally attention allocation and task monitoring) across the entire IGT, it would impair them in males. Contrary to our expectations, humor improved IGT decision-making under risk for both sexes (specifcally at blocks 19 and 20) and attention allocation for most IGT blocks (P3b amplitudes). However, humor impaired IGT decision-making under ambiguity in males during the block six and task monitoring (FRN amplitudes) for most IGT blocks. Attention allocation did not mediate the benefcial efect of humor on decision-making under risk in either sex. Task monitoring decrements fully mediated the humor's detrimental infuence on men's decision-making under ambiguity during block six.
YR 2024
FD 2024-09-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32542
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32542
LA eng
NO Flores-Torres, J., McRae, K., Campos-Arteaga, G. et al. Enhancing cognitive control of our decisions: Making the most of humor during the IGT in females and males. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-024-01210-y
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA. This research received support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID, Chile) through the Doctorado Nacional Grant 21140098 (design and experiment) and the Fondecyt Postdoc Grant 3220391 (behavioral and EEG analyses and manuscript writing). The sponsor had no role in the study design, collection, analyses, and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, nor in the article submission for publication.
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RD 19 ene 2026