Shifting Selves and Decision Making: The Effects of Self-Construal Priming on Consumer Risk-Taking

The study elucidates the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests to assess motivation and risk taking for protest participation. We draw on protesters’ accounts to examine how police violence influenced the participants decision making to participate in the 2020 March on Washington during a pandemic that exacerbated the risks already in place from protesting the police. We found that protesters’ social position and commitment to the cause provided motivations, along with a zeal to do more especially among White protesters. For Black participants, the images in the media resonated with their own experiences of structural racism from police.

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The Moderating Role of Personal Relevance on Differential Priming of Anxiety and Sadness on Perceived Travel Risk: A Replication

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.104.2.500-508 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 104 (2) ◽

pp. 500-508 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Wen-Bin Chiou ◽

Ming-Hsu Chang ◽

Chien-Lung Chen

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Personal Relevance ◽

Risk Averse ◽

Mood Repair ◽

Neutral Mood ◽

Motivational Influences ◽

Relevance Condition ◽

Moderating Role

Raghunathan and Pham conducted a pioneer study in 1999 on the motivational influences of anxiety and sadness on decision making and indicated that anxiety would motivate individuals to be risk averse, whereas sadness would motivate individuals to be risk taking. A replication study was employed in the domain of perceived travel risk. Compared to participants in a neutral mood, anxious participants showed higher perceived travel risk than sad participants. Moreover, the differential effect of anxiety and sadness on perceived travel risk was only pronounced under the high personal relevance condition, in which participants made personal decisions and expected that they would be affected by the outcomes. In general, the results extend the notion proposed by Raghunathan and Pham suggesting that travelers' implicit goals primed by anxiety or sadness used for mood-repair purposes appear to be moderated by personal relevance.

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Neural correlates of Traditional Chinese Medicine induced advantageous risk-taking decision making

Brain and Cognition ◽

10.1016/j.bandc.2009.06.006 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

pp. 354-361 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tiffany M.Y. Lee ◽

Li-guo Guo ◽

Hong-zhi Shi ◽

Yong-zhi Li ◽

Yue-jia Luo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Chinese Medicine ◽

Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Neural Correlates

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On Relationship between Self-construal and Individual Behavior in Video-Mediated Multicultural Group Decision Making

Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-39137-8_28 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 247-256

Author(s):

Hui Li ◽

Pei-Luen Patrick Rau ◽

Xiaobo Zhao ◽

Gavriel Salvendy

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Group Decision Making ◽

Group Decision ◽

Individual Behavior ◽

Self Construal

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Cuing both positive and negative episodic foresight reduces delay discounting but does not affect risk-taking

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1177/1747021818819777 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (8) ◽

pp. 1998-2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Adam Bulley ◽

Beyon Miloyan ◽

Gillian V Pepper ◽

Matthew J Gullo ◽

Julie D Henry ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Delay Discounting ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Future Scenarios ◽

Balloon Analogue Risk Task ◽

Episodic Simulation ◽

The Future ◽

Future Events ◽

Monetary Choice Questionnaire

Humans frequently create mental models of the future, allowing outcomes to be inferred in advance of their occurrence. Recent evidence suggests that imagining positive future events reduces delay discounting (the devaluation of reward with time until its receipt), while imagining negative future events may increase it. Here, using a sample of 297 participants, we experimentally assess the effects of cued episodic simulation of positive and negative future scenarios on decision-making in the context of both delay discounting (monetary choice questionnaire) and risk-taking (balloon-analogue risk task). Participants discounted the future less when cued to imagine positive and negative future scenarios than they did when cued to engage in control neutral imagery. There were no effects of experimental condition on risk-taking. Thus, although these results replicate previous findings suggesting episodic future simulation can reduce delay discounting, they indicate that this effect is not dependent on the valence of the thoughts, and does not generalise to all other forms of “impulsive” decision-making. We discuss various interpretations of these results, and suggest avenues for further research on the role of prospection in decision-making.

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Sexual Coercion in the College Population: A Form of Risk-Taking Behavior

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260517720736 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (23-24) ◽

pp. 5276-5291

Author(s):

Alisa R. Garner ◽

Laura C. Spiller ◽

Patrick Williams

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Sexual Coercion ◽

Sensation Seeking ◽

Outcome Expectation ◽

College Population ◽

Risk Taking Behavior ◽

Reckless Behavior ◽

Decision Making Model ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine whether a decision-making model of risk-taking behavior, specifically impulsivity, positive and negative outcome expectation, and sensation seeking, can be extended to motivation for perpetration of sexual coercion. Participants included 276 sexually active college students between the ages of 18 and 25 years old who completed a set of questionnaires: (a) Sexual Experiences Survey, (b) Sensation Seeking Scales, (c) Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events, (d) Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, and (e) Reckless Behavior Questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses were utilized to examine the relationship between these decision-making models and sexually coercive behaviors. General risk-taking behaviors were positively correlated with acts of sexual coercion, r = .16, p < .01. The predictor variables accounted for a significant amount of the variance in sexual coercion, R2 = .11, F(4, 246) = 7.57, p < .01. Only sensation seeking contributed unique variance to our model of sexual coercion, β = .27, t = 4.06, p < .01. Interventions to reduce sexual coercion may be more successful if they target those high in risk-taking. Similarly, prevention efforts informed by research on how to engage and hold the attention of sensation seeking youth may be more successful.

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