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Effects of emotional state on behavioral responsiveness to personal risk feedback

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  • Jennifer L. Cerully
  • William M.P. Klein

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The influence of incidental emotion on responsiveness to risk feedback was investigated. One hundred and eighty-seven male and female undergraduate students experienced a film emotion induction procedure to elicit happiness, sadness, or neutral affect. They then received false feedback indicating that their risk of getting a fictional type of influenza was high or low, and were given the chance to obtain more information about this type of flu and how to prevent it. Among low-risk participants, experiencing any emotion (happy or sad) resulted in obtaining more information than those in the neutral condition. Conversely, high-risk participants who experienced any emotion took less information than those in the neutral group. High-risk feedback produced less positive affect, more negative affect and worry, and higher risk perceptions than low-risk feedback. The findings have implications for how threatening risk feedback will affect information seeking behavior in the context of an emotional state.

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  • Jennifer L. Cerully & William M.P. Klein, 2010. "Effects of emotional state on behavioral responsiveness to personal risk feedback," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(5), pages 591-598, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:13:y:2010:i:5:p:591-598
    DOI: 10.1080/13669870903192244
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    1. Erika A. Waters, 2008. "Feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling at-risk: a review of incidental affect's influence on likelihood estimates of health hazards and life events," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(5), pages 569-595, July.
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    1. Luz Fernández-Aguilar & Beatriz Navarro-Bravo & Jorge Ricarte & Laura Ros & Jose Miguel Latorre, 2019. "How effective are films in inducing positive and negative emotional states? A meta-analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(11), pages 1-28, November.

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