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TY - JOUR
T1 - Rational emotions
AU - Meshulam, M.
AU - Winter, E.
AU - Ben-Shakhar, G.
AU - Aharon, I.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We present here the concept of rational emotions: Emotions may be directly controlled and utilized in a conscious, analytic fashion, enabling an individual to size up a situation, to determine that a certain "mental state" is strategically advantageous and adjust accordingly. Building on the growing body of literature recognizing the vital role of emotions in determining decisions, we explore the complementary role of rational choice in choosing emotional states. Participants played the role of "recipient" in the dictator game, in which an anonymous "dictator" decides how to split an amount of money between himself and the recipient. A subset of recipients was given a monetary incentive to be angry at low-split offers. That subset demonstrated increased physiological arousal at low offers relative to high offers as well as more anger than other participants. These results provide a fresh outlook on human decision-making and contribute to the continuing effort to build more complete models of rational behavior. © 2012 Copyright 2012 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business.
AB - We present here the concept of rational emotions: Emotions may be directly controlled and utilized in a conscious, analytic fashion, enabling an individual to size up a situation, to determine that a certain "mental state" is strategically advantageous and adjust accordingly. Building on the growing body of literature recognizing the vital role of emotions in determining decisions, we explore the complementary role of rational choice in choosing emotional states. Participants played the role of "recipient" in the dictator game, in which an anonymous "dictator" decides how to split an amount of money between himself and the recipient. A subset of recipients was given a monetary incentive to be angry at low-split offers. That subset demonstrated increased physiological arousal at low offers relative to high offers as well as more anger than other participants. These results provide a fresh outlook on human decision-making and contribute to the continuing effort to build more complete models of rational behavior. © 2012 Copyright 2012 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business.
KW - Decision-making
KW - Dictator game
KW - Emotion regulation
KW - Rationality
KW - Skin conductance response
KW - adult
KW - article
KW - brain
KW - decision making
KW - emotion
KW - female
KW - game
KW - human
KW - male
KW - physiology
KW - Brain
KW - Choice Behavior
KW - Decision Making
KW - Emotions
KW - Female
KW - Games, Experimental
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1080/17470919.2011.559124
DO - 10.1080/17470919.2011.559124
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 11
EP - 17
JO - Social Neuroscience
JF - Social Neuroscience
SN - 1747-0919
IS - 1
ER -