The Construction of Preference: The Functions of Affect in the Construction of Preferences

By Ellen Peters. 2006

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

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Reexamining Fear Appeal Models from Cognitive Appraisal Theory and Functional Emotion Theory Perspectives (2016, methodology): “Second, drawing from research applying functional emotion theories in an information-processing context (e.g., Nabi, 2003; Peters, 2006), we specified the mechanism through which heightened fear and anxiety could activate and guide the coping appraisal process.”
Affect, Moral Intuition, and Risk (2010, background): “Affect can also serve as a spotlight, guiding information processing (Peters, 2006) and is a “common currency” allowing decision makers to compare apples to oranges (Cabanac, 1992).”
What drives range preferences in electric vehicle users (2013, background): “For example, the experience of negative affect (e.g., fear) in conjunction with the object under judgment will lead to more riskaverse preferences (Peters, 2006; Weber and Johnson, 2009).”
The multiplicity of emotions: A framework of emotional functions in decision making (2008, methodology): “The role of moral sentiments and the commitment function is not addressed by Peters’ (2006) taxonomy, nor by Loewenstein and Lerner (2003).”
The Role of Affect in Public Support and Opposition to Wolf Management (2012, background): “Thought of in this way, affect is “integral” to the object in question (Peters, 2006), as opposed to “incidental,” which can generally be thought of as mood affect; that is, one’s general mood unrelated to any particular object.”
Affect, risk perception and future optimism after the tsunami disaster (2008, background): “…constructed on the basis of various contextual factors (such as incidental affect or mood; Lichtenstein & Slovic, 2006; Peters, 2006; Johnson & Tversky, 1983) and people tend to rely on their affective reactions when making decisions (Slovic et al., 2002; see also…”
The Role of Epistemic Emotions in Personal Epistemology and Self-Regulated Learning (2018, background): “If something is surprising, then an individual’s attention is drawn to what caused the surprise (Peters, 2006).”
The affect gap in risky choice : Affect-rich outcomes attenuate attention to probability information (2014, methodology): “The evidence for the use of different strategies in affect-rich and affect-poor problems is consistent with the notion that affect acts “as a spotlight” (Peters, 2006), focusing people’s attention on specific types of information (e.g., outcomes).”