焦虑是在我们日常生活中占据重要地位的一种情绪,对人类的决策行为能够产生显著影响。探讨决策研究的重要领域——奖赏学习,可以帮助我们更深入地认识焦虑情绪在决策过程中扮演的角色。过往研究者较少关注焦虑对奖赏学习的潜在影响,而且已有研究在实验技术和任务范式方面存在一定的局限性。考虑到奖赏学习概念的复杂性,为了全面地考察个体焦虑水平与奖赏学习的关系,本文作者建议设置不同类型的奖赏学习情境,例如概率学习、联结学习、逆向学习和社会学习等。在上述各类不同任务中,个体焦虑水平对奖赏学习能力的影响模式可能并不一致,有待研究者们进行深入探讨。

Anxiety is an important emotion in our daily life, which influences human decision-making significantly. Investigating the research field of rewarding learning may help with understanding the role of anxiety in decision-making process. However, the potential impact of anxiety on rewarding learning is largely absent in previous literature. In addition, studies devoted to this topic have limitations about the experimental paradigms and techniques being applied. Regarding the complexity of the reward learning concept, we suggest researchers exploring the relationship between anxiety and reward learning in various scenarios including probabilistic learning, associative learning, reversal learning, and social learning. The moderating effect of anxiety on individual reward learning in different scenarios may appear to be diverse, which is awaited to be clarified.