Affect and decision making: A "hot" topic

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-85

  Peters, Ellen ^a,b   Västfjäll, Daniel ^a,c   Gärling, Tommy ^c   Slovic, Paul ^a,b  

^a DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect; Decision making; Emotion; Functions of affect; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547329147     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.528     Document Type: Review

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