Heuristics and Biases: The Affect Heuristic

By Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters, Donald G. MacGregor. 2002

105 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b6acc504dd138ab009c384e60f4d736b3b7d5ee9

Citations in the corpus

• “If I look at the mass I will never act”: Psychic numbing and genocide (2007, unknown): “Without affect, information lacks meaning and won’t be used in judgment and decision making (Loewenstein, Weber, Hsee, & Welch, 2001; Slovic, Finucane, Peters, & MacGregor, 2002 ).”
• A Clearer Picture: The Contribution of Visuals and Text to Framing Effects (2015, unknown): “This contention is also supported by the affect heuristic (Slovic et al., 2007), which states that emotions provide a rapid and automatic feeling of the “goodness or badness” of a stimulus (p. 1333), which can guide behavior.”