The Effect of Negative Emotions in Decisions

Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology grade: 13 University of Marburg (Arbeitsgruppe für Strategisches und Internationales Management) course: Seminar Behavioral Strategy language: English abstract: Over the last four decades the topic of emotions and decision-making has gained relevance among psychologists. This paper presents a selective qualitative review of the influence of the negative emotions fear anger sadness and disgust on the domains of judgement choice and decision-making. For this purpose it brings together traditional and contemporary theories from the field of emotion and decision-making and building on this reviews highly recognized and accepted research works that have concentrated on outcome effects. Negative emotions turned out to constitute major influence on judgement choice and decision-making. The review of outcome effects has indicated that in many cases emotions of the same valence but with different appraisals can exert opposing effects on the decision outcome.