Attention to emotion and reliance on feelings in decision-making: Variations on a pleasure principle.
Cognition
; 217: 104904, 2021 12.
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ABSTRACT
Individuals are thought to differ in the extent to which they attend to and value their feelings, as captured by the construct of attention to emotion. The well-being correlates of attention to emotion have been extensively studied, but the decision-making correlates have not been. A three study program of research (total N = 328) sought to examine relationships between stimulus-specific feelings and decisions concerning those stimuli in the context of high levels of within-subject power. Evidence for the pleasure principle was robust, in that individuals placed a virtual self closer to stimuli that they found more pleasant (Study 1) and they wished to re-view such stimuli more frequently (Studies 2 & 3). These relationships, however, were more pronounced at higher levels of attention to emotion. The findings affirm the importance of feelings in decision-making while highlighting ways in which individual differences in attention to emotion operate.
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01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Emociones
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Placer
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cognition
Año:
2021
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Article