Fear and anger produce distinct and predictable appraisal tendencies
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Fear and anger produce distinct and predictable appraisal tendencies, which reliably shape downstream behavioral outcomes such as risk-taking or risk aversion.
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Flying Off the Handle: Affective Influences on Decision Making and Action Tendencies in Real-World Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Scenarios
2019 · cited by 15
The study explicitly combines naturalistic decision-making with the Appraisal Tendency Framework, demonstrating that emotions like anger and fear generate distinct action tendencies such as risk-taking.
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Linking emotion to risk-taking behaviours of construction workers: Appraisal-tendency framework
2024 · cited by 3
Using behavioral experiments and the Appraisal-Tendency Framework, the study shows that discrete negative emotions lead to distinct risk behaviors, with anger promoting risk-taking and fear prompting risk aversion.