Extending the Research Domain Criteria to Assess the Arousal System in Clinical Psychology: A Lab Asset-Market Paradigm Is Likely to Show That Self-Reported Positive Arousal Correlates with Excessive Demand

In a recent lab-market study of asset-price bubbles, an excessive demand measure (EDM) explained 34.5% of price variance. In a follow-up study, the expected finding that the EDM correlates with positive arousal would suggest that the Research Domain Criteria could be extended to include this lab-market paradigm’s assessment of arousal.