Event Title
Incidental Emotion and Intuitive Feelings of Risk
Presentation Type
Poster/Portfolio
Presenter Major(s)
Psychology
Mentor Information
Amanda Dillard
Department
Psychology
Location
Kirkhof Center KC 79
Start Date
10-4-2013 10:00 AM
End Date
10-4-2013 11:00 AM
Keywords
Health
Abstract
Research indicates that emotions are essential elements of judgment and decision-making, including risk perception. In the health domain, little research has focused on discrete negative or positive emotions. Research has also been focused on integral emotions or those relating specifically to the decision rather than incidental emotions or those that are contextually unrelated. In this study, we examined whether discrete and incidental emotions of fear, anger, happiness, and surprise influenced people's health-related risk perceptions of cancer. After an emotion induction task, college students completed a set of risk perception measures. Along with traditional risk perception measures, we included a risk perception measure that has been hypothesized to be more affective than traditional measures. In addition to examining the effects of the different emotions on risk perceptions, we examined whether the magnitude of the effects differed depending on the type of risk perception.
Incidental Emotion and Intuitive Feelings of Risk
Kirkhof Center KC 79
Research indicates that emotions are essential elements of judgment and decision-making, including risk perception. In the health domain, little research has focused on discrete negative or positive emotions. Research has also been focused on integral emotions or those relating specifically to the decision rather than incidental emotions or those that are contextually unrelated. In this study, we examined whether discrete and incidental emotions of fear, anger, happiness, and surprise influenced people's health-related risk perceptions of cancer. After an emotion induction task, college students completed a set of risk perception measures. Along with traditional risk perception measures, we included a risk perception measure that has been hypothesized to be more affective than traditional measures. In addition to examining the effects of the different emotions on risk perceptions, we examined whether the magnitude of the effects differed depending on the type of risk perception.