Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking

By Daniel M.T. Fessler, Elizabeth G. Pillsworth, Thomas J. Flamson. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Sex Differences in Disgust: Why Are Women More Easily Disgusted Than Men? (2018, background): “A willingness to approach contaminants may be an honest behavioral signal of a man’s immune strength, whereas overcautiousness around pathogens may be a cue to poor genetic quality and communicate inferior immune function (Fessler et al., 2004).”
The Role of Emotion in Economic Behavior (2007, unknown): “Specifically, angry people tend to prefer risk (see also Fessler, Pillsworth, and Flamson 2004), whereas fearful people tend to avoid it.”
From appeasement to conformity: Evolutionary and cultural perspectives on shame, competition, and cooperation. (2007, background): “Because inflicting costs on others is risky, the functional objectives of anger are achieved by increasing the propensity to take risks, a pattern that is both readily observed and experimentally demonstrable (Fessler et al., 2004).”
The Role of Emotions in Advertising: A Call to Action (2019, background): “Taking this insight further, studies from the field of evolutionary psychology in the 2000s added ultimate explanations to why discrete emotions occur in particular situations (Fessler, Pillsworth, and Flamson 2004; Cosmides and Tooby 2000).”
The Nature and Role of Affect in Consumer Behavior (2008, background): “Fessler, Pillsworth, and Flamson (2004) also found that anger triggered more riskseeking in gambling, especially among men.”
Sex, Risk and the Newsvendor (2013, methodology): “The PANAS has been used in a number of prior studies linking emotion to risk-taking behaviors (e.g., Fessler et al. 2004; Maner et al. 2007).”
Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem". (2007, background): “People’s needs and desires can influence a broad range of cognitive and behavioral processes, including attention (Maner, Gailliot, & DeWall, in press; Maner et al., 2003), evaluation and interpretation (Schaller, Park, & Faulkner, 2003), memory (Gardner, Pickett, & Brewer, 2000), aggression (Twenge”
The impact of emotions on shopping behavior during epidemic. What a business can do to protect customers (2020, background): “Such behavior, as per Fessler, Pillsworth, and Flamson (2004), is the functional objective of fear which is to reduce any harm that may occur to an individual experiencing it.”