The role of emotions in decision making
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06/12/2024
Pello Huizi
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study the role that is attributed at present to emotions in decision making. We make decisions constantly. Some of them are important, or very important, others not so much. When the outcomes are of great importance, one’s desire to make a good decision is, of course, understandable. But the question is what people should do for that. Most of us were taught that, before we make a decision, we should examine the choices carefully and weigh up the pros and cons of each choice. Our decisions should be based on rational analysis of the choices, because we are logical beings. This is the idea we can find behind the philosophies of Plato and Descartes; modern economy is also based on the same idea, just like cognitive science’s research for many decades. We have been defined as rational beings, rationality was what made us human. But, is it true? What’s about the emotional side of human beings? Aren’t we emotional as much as rational? Since Plato (and his metaphor of the chariot), most of the western thinkers agreed that emotions, at worst, hinder reason and, at best, are a harmless luxury. It is the negative view of emotions. About 35 years ago, however, the time of the positive view of emotions began. According to the positive view, if we want to behave reasonably and make good decisions, emotions are decisive.
How to Cite
Huizi, P. (2024). The role of emotions in decision making. Gogoa, 24. https://doi.org/10.1387/gogoa.26087
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Keywords
bounded rationality, decision-making, emotion, neuroscience, somatic marker
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Baumeister, Roy F., C. Nathan eta Liqing Zhang. 2007. “Do emotions improve or hinder the decision making process”. In K. D. Vohs, R. F. Baumeister eta G. Loewenstein. (arg.). Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A hedgefoxian perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 11-31.
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Bechara, Antoine. 2012. The neurology of decision-making: How neuroscience can enrich research on decision making. https://www.google.es/#q=antoine+bechara+pdf (2015-10-09an atzitua).
Bechara, Antoine, Hanna Damasio eta Antonio R. Damasio. 2000. “Emotion, decision making and the orbitofrontal cortex”. Cerebral Cortex 10: 295-307.
Bechara, Antoine, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel eta Antonio R. Damasio. 1997. “Deciding advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy”. Science 275: 1293-94.
Bechara, Antoine, Daniel Tranel eta Hanna Damasio. 2000. “Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions”. Brain 123: 2189-202.
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Damasio, Antonio. 1994. Descartes’ error. New York: Ptnam. [Euskarazko itzulpena: 2012. Descartesen hutsegitea. Bilbo: ehupress. Itzultzailea: Isabel Etxeberria].
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Evans, Dylan. 2002. Emoción: La ciencia del sentimiento. Madril: Santillana.
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Evans, Dylan eta Pierre Cruse. 2004. “Introduction”. In D. Evans eta P. Cruse (arg.), Emotion, evolution, and rationality. New York: Oxford University Press, xi-xviii.
Evans, Jonathan St. B. T. 2007. Hypothetical thinking: Dual processes in reasoning and judgement. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.
Fernández-Abascal, Enrique G. eta Pilar Jiménez Sánchez. 2010. “Psicología de la emoción”. In E. G. Fernández-Abascal, B. García Rodríguez, M. P. Jiménez Sánchez, M. D. Martín Díaz eta F. J. Domínguez Sánchez (arg.), Psicología de la emoción. Madril: Ramón Areces, 17-74.
Frijda, Nico H. 2008. “The psychologist’s point of view”. In M. Lewis, J. M. HavilaLAnd-Jones eta L. F. Barrett (arg.), Handbook of emotions. New York, NY: Guilford Press, 68-87.
Fuster, Joaquín M. 2014. Cerebro y libertad: Los cimientos cerebrales de nuestra capacidad para elegir. Bartzelona: Ariel.
Gigerenzer, Gerd. 2010. “Moral satisficing: Rethinking moral behavior as bounded rationality”. Topics in Cognitive Science 2: 528-54.
Gilhooly, Kenneth J. 1990. “Decision making and judgement”. In M. W. Eysenck (arg.), The Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 89-93.
Gilovich, Thomas D. eta Dale W. Griffin. 2010. “Judgment and decision making”. In S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert eta G. Lindzey (arg.), The handbook of social psychology (5. ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 542-88.
Gneezy, Uri eta John A. List. 2014. Lo que importa es el porqué: Los motivos económicos ocultos de nuestras acciones. Bartzelona: Urano.
Goldie, Peter. 2010. “Introduction”. In P. Goldie (arg.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of emotion. Oxford, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1-14.
Goleman, Daniel. 1995. Emotional intelligence. Broadway, N.Y.: Bantam Books.
Johnson, E. J. eta A. Tversky. 1983. “Affect, generalization, and the perception of risk”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 45: 20-31.
Kahneman, Daniel. 2013. Pensar rápido, pensar despacio. Bartzelona: Debolsillo.
Keltner, Dacher eta Jennifer S. Lerner. 2010. “Emotion”. In S. T Fiske, D. T. Gilbert eta G. Lindzey (arg.), Handbook of social psychology. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 317-52.
Lerner, Jennifer S., Ye Li, Piercarlo ValALdesolo eta Karim S. Kassam. 2015. “Emotion and decision making”. Annual Review of Psychology 66: 799-823.
Loewenstein, George eta Jennifer S. Lerner. 2003. “The role of affect in decision making”. In R. Davidson, H. Goldsmith eta K. Scherer (arg.), Handbook of affective science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 619-42.
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Medvec, V. H., S. F. Madley eta T. Gilovich. 1995. “When less is more: Counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among Olympic medalists”. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 69 (4): 603-10.
Oatley, Keith. 1994. “Emotion”. In M. W. Eysenck (arg.), The Blackwell dictionary of cognitive psychology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 129-34.
Oliveira, Arnaldo. 2007. “A discussion of rational and psychological decision making theories and models: The search for a cultural-ethical decision making model”. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies 12-2: 12-17.
Oppenheimer, Daniel M. eta Evan Kelso. 2015. “Information processing as a paradigm for decision making”. Annual Review of Psychology 66: 277-94.
Petropoulou, Hélène. 2006. Profile émotionnel et cognitive au début de la sclérose en plaques : effets différentiels des émotions sur les performances cognitives. Psychology. Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis.
Phelps, Elizabeth A., Karolina M. Lempert eta Sokol-Hessner, Peter. 2014. “Emotion and decision making: Multiple modularity neural circuits”. Annual Review of Neuroscience 37: 263-87.
Platon. 2005. Fedon, Menon, Kratilo eta Fedro. Bilbo: Klasikoak [itzultzailea: Jesus Maria Arrojerria].
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Rilling, James K. eta Alan G. Sanfey. 2011. “The neuroscience of social decisionmaking”. Annual Review of Psychology 62: 23-48.
Scherer, Klaus R. 2000. “Psychological models of emotion”. In J. C. Borod (arg.), The neuropsychology of emotion. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 137-62.
Scherer, Klaus R. 2005. “What are emotions? And how can they be measured?”. Social Science Information 44 (4): 695-729.
Simon, Herbert A. 1955. “A behavioral model of rational choice”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 69 (1): 99-118.
Simon, Herbert A. 1983. Reason in human affairs. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Skinner, Burrhus F. 1962 [1948]. Walden two. The Macmillan Company, NY: Macmillan Paperbacks.
Tversky, A. eta D. Kahneman. 1982. Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zeelenberg, Marcel, Rob M. A. Nelissen, Seger M. Breugelmans eta Rik Pieters. 2008. “On emotion specifity in decision making: Why feeling is for doing”. Judgment and Decision Making 3 (1): 18-27.
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