Background. Being confronted with uncertainty in the context of health-related judgments
and decision making can give rise to the occurrence of systematic biases. These biases may …

Since the advent of the discounted utility (DU) model, economists have thought about
intertemporal choice in very specific terms. DU assumes that people make explicit trade-offs …

Risk in the modern world is confronted and dealt with in three fundamental ways. Risk as
feelings refers to our fast, instinctive and intuitive reactions to danger. Risk as analysis …

This paper introduces a theoretical framework that describes the importance of affect in
guiding judgments and decisions. As used here,“affect” means the specific quality of …

The gamble has been to decision research what the fruit fly has been to biology–a vehicle
for examining fundamental processes with presumably important implications outside the …

Most people are caring and will exert great effort to rescue individual victims whose needy
plight comes to their attention. These same good people, however, often become numbly …

Charities struggle to raise money to feed the thousands of starving children in third world
countries and advocates struggle to raise public support for highway safety measures that …

This paper describes two fundamental modes of thinking. The experiential mode, is intuitive,
automatic, natural, and based upon images to which positive and negative affective feelings …

Successful navigation of the Covid-19 pandemic is predicated on public cooperation with
safety measures and appropriate perception of risk, in which emotion and attention play …

Why do some victims elicit outpourings of sympathy from those who are unaffected, while
others do not? The authors propose a theoretical framework for making sense of the …