Emotional Reactions to Real-World Decisions: Testing and Extending Decision Affect Theory

最近在判断和决策方面的研究开始考虑人们对其决策结果的感受。当一个危险的情况变得很糟糕时，你会有多不开心？过去对简单赌博的研究表明，情绪不仅取决于发生在你身上的事情，还取决于发生的可能性，以及其他可能发生的事情。这个项目通过研究一组重要的现实世界情况——关于健康和医疗的决定，扩展了过去的工作。人们如何看待他们的医疗决定的结果？医生的感受如何？人们能预测自己的感受吗？他们会用这些预测来指导他们选择治疗方案吗？一系列针对本科生和医生的研究探讨了这些问题和其他问题。

Schwartz Recent work in judgment and decision making has begun to consider how people feel about the results of their decisions. When a risky situation turns out badly, how unhappy will you be? Past research with simple gambles has shown that feelings depend not only on what happened to you, but on how likely it was, and what else could have happened. This project extends past work by examining an important set of real-world situations -- decisions about health and medical treatment. How do people feel about the results of their medical decisions? How do doctors feel? Can people anticipate their feelings, and do they use these anticipations to guide their choices between treatments? A set of studies using undergraduate students and physicians explores these questions and others.