The vagaries of valuation: Post-traumatic growth and psychological responses to gains and losses

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100165
• Publication Date: 2023-10-20T09:09:19Z
• Authors: Eric Skoog
• Keywords: Posttraumatic growth

The experiences of war and trauma have been shown to many implications for the behaviour attitudes individuals, including economic social preferences. It has argued that this may in part be result a process called Post Traumatic Growth (PTG), where individuals exposed traumatic events experience growth number domains, thereby shifting However, few studies actually tested supposition with field data. I argue populations experienced such as armed conflict, who PTG will display reduced tendency towards loss-aversion, which threatening conditions otherwise display. To test my hypotheses, conduct survey over 2000 refugees from ongoing conflict Syria, living Midyat refugee camp Mardin, near Turkish-Syrian border. In addition reporting individual level trauma, respondents also complete hypothetical valuation task. show conflict-exposed sample, not experiencing displayed stronger responses losses than gains. high showed inverse relationship, gains losses. This post societies other contexts people levels trauma.