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Table of Contents About the Authors vii Overview Introduction: The Hedgefox 3 George Loewenstein, Kathleen D. Vohs, and Roy F. Baumeister 1. Do Emotions Improve or Hinder the Decision Making Process? 11 Roy F. Baumeister, C. Nathan DeWall, and Liqing Zhang Integrative Frameworks 2. Affect-Based Evaluation and Regulation as Mediators of Behavior: The Role of Affect in Risk Taking, Helping, and Eating Patterns 35 Eduardo B. Andrade and Joel B. Cohen 3. Emotional Influence on Decision and Behavior: Stimuli, States, and Subjectivity 69 Piotr Winkielman and Jennifer L. Trujillo 4. Feeling, Searching, and Preparing: How Affective States Alter Information Seeking 93 Karen Gasper and Linda M. Isbell v 5. The Role of Personality in Emotion, Judgment, and Decision Making 117 John M. Zelenski 6. Emotion Is Cognition: An Information-Processing View of the Mind 133 Robert Oum and Debra Lieberman Specific Mechanisms 7. The Effects of Self-Esteem and Ego Threat on Decision Making 157 Catherine D. Rawn, Nicole L. Mead, Peter Kerkhof, and Kathleen D. Vohs 8. The Functions of Emotion in Decision Making and Decision Avoidance 183 Christopher J. Anderson 9. Emotion Regulation and Impulse Control: People Succumb to Their Impulses In Order to Feel Better 203 Matthew T. Gailliot and Dianne M. Tice Applications 10. Reason and Emotion in Moral Judgment: Different Prototypes Lead to Different Theories 219 Benoît Monin, David A. Pizarro, and Jennifer S. Beer 11. Aging, Affect, and Decision Making 245 Quinn Kennedy and Mara Mather 12. Affect and Cognition as a Source of Motivation: A New Model and Evidence from Natural Experiments 267 Lorenz Goette and David Huffman 13. The Impact of Emotions on Wage Setting and Unemployment 295 Lorenz Goette and David Huffman 14. The Mind and the Body: Subjective Well-Being in an Objective World 315 Jonathan Levav Index 345 vi Contents ...

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