Effects of emotional state on behavioral responsiveness to personal risk feedback

Jennifer L. Cerully and William M.P. Klein

Journal of Risk Research, 2010, vol. 13, issue 5, 591-598

Abstract: The influence of incidental emotion on responsiveness to risk feedback was investigated. One hundred and eighty-seven male and female undergraduate students experienced a film emotion induction procedure to elicit happiness, sadness, or neutral affect. They then received false feedback indicating that their risk of getting a fictional type of influenza was high or low, and were given the chance to obtain more information about this type of flu and how to prevent it. Among low-risk participants, experiencing any emotion (happy or sad) resulted in obtaining more information than those in the neutral condition. Conversely, high-risk participants who experienced any emotion took less information than those in the neutral group. High-risk feedback produced less positive affect, more negative affect and worry, and higher risk perceptions than low-risk feedback. The findings have implications for how threatening risk feedback will affect information seeking behavior in the context of an emotional state.

Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13669870903192244 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:13:y:2010:i:5:p:591-598

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RJRR20

DOI: 10.1080/13669870903192244

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Risk Research is currently edited by Bryan MacGregor

More articles in Journal of Risk Research from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().