The Construction of Preference: The Affect Heuristic

By Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters, Donald G. MacGregor. 2006

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A decade of application of the Choquet and Sugeno integrals in multi-criteria decision aid (2008, background): “Bi-cooperative games defined as functions v : Q(N) → R satisfying v(∅, ∅) = 0 are extension of ternary voting games (Bilbao et al., 2000).”
Contingent Reliance on the Affect Heuristic as a Function of Regulatory Focus (2008, background): “In other words, subjective affective responses to a target are often used as a proxy for the target’s value (Damasio, 1994; Pham, 2004; Slovic et al., 2002).”
Emotions and the Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings (2013, neutral): “64 See Bargh, 1984; Zajonc 1984; LeDoux 1996; Loew- enstein et al. 2001; Slovic et al. 2002.”
Emotions, Trust, and Perceived Risk: Affective and Cognitive Routes to Flood Preparedness Behavior (2011, background): “Path analysis showed, consistent with our predictions based on the affect heuristic,(15) that negative feelings decreased trust in flood protection, and increased risk perceptions.”
Housing markets in a pandemic: Evidence from historical outbreaks (2020, neutral): “…theoretical and empirical work shows that when risks are salient, and when events trigger negative emotions, risk aversion can temporarily increase signiﬁcantly (e.g. Bordalo et al., 2012; Cohn et al., 2015; Guiso et al., 2018; Loewenstein, 2000 ), and aﬀect risk perception ( Slovic et al., 2007 ).”
Decision making and brand choice by older consumers (2008, background): “Affect, or the good and bad feelings associated with options, guides decisions and perceptions of information, by acting as a source of information and meaning (Slovic et al., 2002).”
The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions: Towards a comprehensive model (2015, background): “9 CFI and SRMR are generally preferred (Iacobucci, 2 010). For a detailed discussion of goodness of fit statistics and appropriate cut-off values see Hu an d Bentler (1999) and McDonald and Ho (2002).”
The multiplicity of emotions: A framework of emotional functions in decision making (2008, methodology): “The affect-heuristic, proposed by Slovic et al. (2002) , is a related approach, though it is somewhat equivocal with respect to the issue of incidental or integral affect.”
Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster (2008, background): “judgment and decision making has earlier been described as an affect heuristic (Finucane et al., 2000; Slovic et al., 2002 ).”