Should I Go With My Gut? Investigating the Benefits of Emotion-Focused Decision Making

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 743-753

  Mikels, Joseph A ^a   Maglio, Sam J ^b   Reed, Andrew E ^c   Kaplowitz, Lee J ^d  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion; Gut feeling; Intuition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052281581     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023986     Document Type: Article

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