This article reviews research on affect, emotion, and decision making published in
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes from the 1990s onward. The …

Humans exhibit a suite of biases when making economic decisions. We review recent
research on the origins of human decision making by examining whether similar choice …

Emotions are centered in subjective experiences that people represent, in part, with
hundreds, if not thousands, of semantic terms. Claims about the distribution of reported …

Can people feel worse off as the options they face increase? The present studies suggest
that some people--maximizers--can. Study 1 reported a Maximization Scale, which …

Employing a die-under-cup paradigm, we study the extent to which people lie when it is
transparently clear they cannot be caught. We asked participants to report the outcome of a …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “gripping and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

Recent research suggests that refraining from cheating in tempting situations requires self-
control, which indicates that serving self-interest is an automatic tendency. However …

Background. As patients become more involved in health care decisions, there may be
greater opportunity for decision regret. The authors could not find a validated, reliable tool …

We propose a theory of regret regulation that distinguishes regret from related emotions,
specifies the conditions under which regret is felt, the aspects of the decision that are …

This paper addresses the effects of the anticipation of regret on decision making under
uncertainty. Regret is a negative, cognitively based emotion that we experience when …