The Effect of Emotion on Visual Attention to Information and Decision Making in the Context of Informed Consent Process for Clinical Trials

Autor:	Nina Goodman, Kaitlin A. Graff, Rebecca A. Ferrer, Jennifer Tehan Stanley, Wendy Nelson, William M. P. Klein, Silvia Salazar
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Government Sociology and Political Science Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Information processing General Decision Sciences 050109 social psychology Context (language use) Anger 050105 experimental psychology Clinical trial Sadness Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Informed consent Perception 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Applied Psychology Clinical psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 29:245-253
ISSN:	0894-3257
Popis:	The aim of this study was to examine the influence of emotion on visual information processing and decision making in the context of informed consent. Researchers are ethically obligated to ensure informed consent in clinical trials; however, many volunteers have unrealistic expectations about the value of an experimental therapy. Moreover, suboptimal participation rates for clinical trials may be partially attributable to perceptions that ethical obligations to volunteers are not met. This study examines whether discrete negative emotions (fear, anger, and sadness) differentially influence information processing, visual attention, and decisions in the context of clinical trial informed consent. Community participants completed a standard emotion induction (or control) and then read an actual consent form from a clinical trial while eye movements were tracked. Fear and anger produced the most prominently different patterns of systematic processing and visual attention, such that fear induced longer fixations to information presented, whereas anger induced shorter fixations. Moreover, among women only, fear increased decisions to participate, compared with anger and neutral emotion. Examinations of associations between eye-tracking variables and self-reported outcomes indicated that for angry participants only, less systematic processing was associated with greater decisions to participate. Negative emotions of any kind decreased accurate perceptions of trial benefit. These patterns suggest a complex interplay among emotion, processing style, and decision making. Future research is necessary to further probe these effects among potential clinical trial volunteers. Published 2016. This article is a U.S Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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