Journal ArticleDOI
Risk as feelings.
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This article proposed the risk-as-feelings hypothesis, which highlights the role of affect experienced at the moment of decision making, and showed that emotional reactions to risky situations often diverge from cognitive assessments of those risks.Abstract:
Virtually all current theories of choice under risk or uncertainty are cognitive and consequentialist. They assume that people assess the desirability and likelihood of possible outcomes of choice alternatives and integrate this information through some type of expectation-based calculus to arrive at a decision. The authors propose an alternative theoretical perspective, the risk-as-feelings hypothesis, that highlights the role of affect experienced at the moment of decision making. Drawing on research from clinical, physiological, and other subfields of psychology, they show that emotional reactions to risky situations often diverge from cognitive assessments of those risks. When such divergence occurs, emotional reactions often drive behavior. The risk-as-feelings hypothesis is shown to explain a wide range of phenomena that have resisted interpretation in cognitive-consequentialist terms.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Portraying the Perils to Polar Bears: The Role of Empathic and Objective Perspective-taking Toward Animals in Climate Change Communication
Janet K. Swim,Brittany Bloodhart +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found no reactance toward portraying harm to polar bears from climate change and no benefits of taking an objective perspective toward the polar bears, and instead, portrayals of polar bears harmed by climate change motivated both environmentalists and non-environmentalists to donate money to environmental activist groups when they took an empathic vs. objective perspective.
Journal ArticleDOI
Worry as a Moderator of the Association Between Risk Perceptions and Quitting Intentions in Young Adult and Adult Smokers
TL;DR: Findings suggest that worry can moderate the extent to which risk perceptions motivate risk-related intentions and that the nature of such moderation may depend on other factors such as age.
Reference EntryDOI
The Psychology of Risk: The Behavioral Finance Perspective
TL;DR: A notable theme within the risk perception literature is how an investor processes information and the various behavioral finance theories and issues that might influence a person's percep- tion of risk within the judgment process as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Role of Emotions in Risk Communication
TL;DR: It is found that loss-based emotions in the technical hazard scenario trigger more coping strategies than in the natural hazard scenario, and specific emotions were found to be associated with different types of action tendencies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Decision counseling in cancer prevention and control.
TL;DR: Preliminary findings suggest that decision counseling can help to clarify personal preferences related to health behavior choices and facilitate achievement of the ideals of informed and shared decision making.
References
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk
Daniel Kahneman,Amos Tversky +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critique of expected utility theory as a descriptive model of decision making under risk, and develop an alternative model, called prospect theory, in which value is assigned to gains and losses rather than to final assets and in which probabilities are replaced by decision weights.
Journal ArticleDOI
Prospect theory: analysis of decision under risk
Daniel Kahneman,Amos Tversky +1 more
Book
Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior
Icek Ajzen,Martin Fishbein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the author explains "theory and reasoned action" model and then applies the model to various cases in attitude courses, such as self-defense and self-care.
Book
Handbook of social psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.
Book
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
TL;DR: The authors argued that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone - they require the support of emotion and feeling, drawing on his experience with neurological patients affected with brain damage, Dr Damasio showed how absence of emotions and feelings can break down rationality.