Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decisionmaking?: A Hedgefoxian Perspective

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345 Index Numbers in boldface refer to additional figures or tables. Abernathy, Thomas, 164 acceptance contingency, 161 acknowledged options in decision avoidance, 192–3 action and inaction, 41, 45, 188–90, 196–7 action control theory, 42 active vs. passive decision avoidance, 193, 194–6 adaptation: of BAS-BIS, 127; and emotion’s role in cognition, 137, 139–50; and emotion’s role in judgment, 42, 127, 149; hedonic, 318–9, 329; self-control’s role of, 204 adults, affect’s impact on helping behavior, 45, 50. See also aging AE (affective evaluation). See affective evaluation (AE) affect: and aging, 245–59; automatic, 6, 13–17, 26–27; and behavior, 13–18, 35–38, 40–46, 58–60, 60n1, 73, 84–85, 183–98; and cognition, 37, 40–41, 48, 60n1, 268, 269–73; definitional issues, 39–40, 72; disruptive properties, 41–42, 60–61n2; vs. emotion, 13; and intuition, 226–7; judgmental role of, 18; mediation role of, 39, 40–41, 117–18, 184, 185, 187; network theory of, 118–9, 120; and personality, 117–29, 319; priming of, 48, 76, 77, 79, 80–83; theoretical considerations , 41–46; unconscious, 13, 40, 83–84, 95, 225. See also current affective state; emotion; information processing; information seeking ; mood affect-as-information perspective, 74, 76, 122–4, 129. See also information seeking affective evaluation (AE): vs. affect regulation, 36–39; and behavior, 58–60; definitional issues, 39–41; and eating patterns, 56–57, 58; and economic behavior, 270, 275–79, 299–310; and helping behavior, 48, 50, 51; and risk taking, 53; theoreti- cal considerations, 37–39, 42–43, 44–46. See also judgment affective meaning, 99–100, 110 affect regulation (AR): vs. affective evaluation, 36–39; and aging, 245–59; and behavior, 14, 58–60; definitional issues, 39–41, 76–77; and eating patterns, 56–57; and helping behavior, 22, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52; and impulse control, 203–13; and moral fortitude, 234–5; and risk taking, 53–54, 55, 77–78; theoretical considerations, 37–39, 43–46. See also anticipated emotional outcomes African Americans, self-esteem and response to ego threat, 173–4 aging: and affect regulation, 245–59; and decision avoidance, 186 Aigner, Thomas, 274 Akerlof, George, 298, 309 allostasis, 323–4, 330, 337n6 Altonji, Joseph, 307 altruistic behavior, motivation for, 22, 45, 47–52 Ambady, Nalini, 82 Anderson, Christopher J., 24 Andrade, Eduardo, 53, 57, 76–77 anger: and approach behavior, 126; and judgment biases, 19, 125, 126; moral deterrence function of, 227; and risk taking, 78, 82–83, 125–6, 248 Angyal, Andra, 142–43 anticipated emotional outcomes: and affect regulation, 20, 44–45, 49; anticipated regret, 24, 169–70, 188; behavior as pursuant of, 22, 38, 46; vs. current emotions, 15–17, 24; decision making role of, 23–26, 28–29, 197, 203; and evolutionary psychology, 16, 28; human inaccuracy in affective forecasts, 25, 26, 318, 324–5, 331; introduction, 5–6, 7–8; and long-term vs. short-term goals, 204–13, 253–4, 272; and risk taking, 52, 54–55; and self-esteem, 158, 167, 169–70, 177. See also affect regulation (AR) Antonovsky, Aaron, 326 anxiety, 52–53, 122–23, 248 apathy in decision avoidance, 194 appraisal effects of emotion, 77–78, 125, 233–4 approach and avoidance behaviors: affect’s role in, 84–85, 183–98; anger’s approach aspect, 126; evolutionary role of emotion in, 144–7; and negative affect, 20; and older adults’ positivity, 257; and personality , 119–20, 121–2, 123–4; and reactions to emotional stimuli, 79–80, 84–85; and specific emotional states, 126; types of decision avoidance, 193–6. See also information seeking AR (affect regulation). See affect regulation (AR) Ariely, Dan, 26 Aristotle, 71 Arkes, Hal R., 54 arousal: and anticipated emotion prediction , 26; definitional issues, 72; and emotion, 13; and probability awareness, 17; types of effects, 74–75; and valence of emotion, 20, 49, 78 Arrow, Kenneth, 186 associative memory, 77 associative-network framework, 120, 121 assumptive world schemas, 326–31, 333 attention in older adults, 250–51 attraction effect in decision making, 256 automatic affect, 6, 13–17, 26–27, 40–41 Averill, James R., 17 avoidance behaviors. See approach and avoidance behaviors Bak, Peter, 80 Baldwin, Mark, 161 Bandura, Al, 232–33 346 Index affective evaluation (cont.) Bargh, John A., 80 BAS (behavioral activation system), 119, 121, 123, 127 Baumann, Donald J., 48, 207 Baumann, Linda, 325 Baumeister...