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Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? (Hardcover)
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Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? (Hardcover)
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Philosophers have long tussled over whether moral judgments are the
products of logical reasoning or simply emotional reactions. From
Jane Austen s Sense and Sensibility to the debates of modern
psychologists, the question of whether feeling or sober rationality
is the better guide to decision making has been a source of
controversy. In Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? Kathleen
Vohs, Roy Baumeister, and George Loewenstein lead a group of
prominent psychologists and economists in exploring the empirical
evidence on how emotions shape judgments and choices. Researchers
on emotion and cognition have staked out many extreme positions:
viewing emotions as either the driving force behind cognition or
its side effect, either an impediment to sound judgment or a guide
to wise decisions. The contributors to Do Emotions Help or Hurt
Decision Making? provide a richer perspective, exploring the
circumstances that shape whether emotions play a harmful or helpful
role in decisions. Roy Baumeister, C. Nathan DeWall, and Liqing
Zhang show that while an individual s current emotional state can
lead to hasty decisions and self-destructive behavior, anticipating
future emotional outcomes can be a helpful guide to making sensible
decisions. Eduardo Andrade and Joel Cohen find that a positive mood
can negatively affect people s willingness to act altruistically.
Happy people, when made aware of risks associated with altruistic
acts, become wary of jeopardizing their own well-being. Benoit
Monin, David Pizarro, and Jennifer Beer find that whether emotion
or reason matters more in moral evaluation depends on the specific
issue in question. Individual characteristics often mediate the
effect of emotions on decisions. Catherine Rawn, Nicole Mead, Peter
Kerkhof, and Kathleen Vohs find that whether an individual makes a
decision based on emotion depends both on the type of decision in
question and the individual s level of self-esteem. And Quinn
Kennedy and Mara Mather show that the elderly are better able to
regulate their emotions, having learned from experience to
anticipate the emotional consequences of their behavior. Do
Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making? represents a significant
advance toward a comprehensive theory of emotions and cognition
that accounts for the nuances of the mental processes involved.
This landmark book will be a stimulus to scholarly debates as well
as an informative guide to everyday decisions."
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