PSYC 423 Final: Reading - The Emotionally Intelligent Decision Maker

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 423
• Professor: Michael Conway

Document Summary

Experiment 1: procedure, looking at how emotion-understanding ability predicted the extent to which incidental anxiety influenced risk taking: Ps completed a measure of emotion-understanding ability and demographic questions. After the 60s-preparation period, the experimenter told the ps he had to leave the room for a second but asked them to answer two questionnaires while he was gone (i. e. measuring risk taking and anxiety, respectively): However, there is no effect among ps with high emotion understanding ability. Interested if making people aware of their anxiety as being irrelevant will have effect on their risk taking: After ps took 60s to mentally prepare, half of them (in each condition) were made aware of their anxiety as irrelevant. A more concrete measure of risk was given: results: 11b the emotionally intelligent decision maker: ps in the incidental-anxiety condition reported higher levels of anxiety (vs. controls), discussion: a. b.