مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد اثر احساسات و تصمیم گیری ( الزویر )

مقاله سال 2016

Research on affect, emotion, and decision making has burgeoned in the last several decades and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes has been at the forefront of publishing key studies in this exciting area. Thus, it is only fitting that a paper in this special anniversary issue focuses on this important topic. By now, it is taken for granted that affect, emotion, and decision making are highly interdependent but clearly that was not always the case. Exploring and understanding the nature of these interdependencies cannot only enhance our understanding of choice processes but also contribute to our appreciation of the functioning of the human mind.

In writing this article, we strove to provide a representative review of research published in OBHDP on this topic over the years, discuss some potential limitations with this research, and provide future research directions. We did not review articles on other topical areas that also could be seen as focusing on affect and decision making (given the broadness of this domain) for two reasons, (a) some of these topical areas are the subject of other articles in the anniversary issue, and (b) doing so helped us manage the scope of our review. Hence, we do not review articles on bargaining and negotiation, fairness and justice, creativity and innovation, group dynamics and affect, regulatory focus and motivation, emotion expression, and trait affect. In terms of the these latter two topics, emotion expression can differ from experienced emotions due to the influence of display rules and other factors and it is experienced emotion that is relevant for actual decision making. In terms of trait affect, while trait affect can influence state affect, state affect is more directly relevant to ongoing decision making and behavior (George, 1991, 1992; Nesselroade, 1988).

Research on affect, emotion, and decision making regularly started appearing in OBHDP in the 1990s and thus we review articles appearing in the journal from the 1990s onward. Our review is organized from a topical perspective. Due to space limitations, our review is not exhaustive but is rather representative of the body of work published. Additionally, our topical organization is deliberately broad and is derived directly from the actual body of published work in the journal on this subject.