Emotion regulation and risk taking: Predicting risky choice in deliberative decision making

Only very recently has research demonstrated that experimentally induced emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) affect risky choice (e.g., Heilman et al., 2010). However, it is unknown whether this effect also operates via habitual use of emotion regulation...

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Published in:Cognition and emotion 2013-02, Vol.27 (2), p.326-334
Main Authors: Panno, Angelo, Lauriola, Marco, Figner, Bernd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Affectivity. Emotion
Anticipated emotion
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive ability
Cognitive appraisal
Columbia Card Task
Decision Making
Decision making. Choice
Deliberative processes
Emotion regulation
Emotional regulation
Emotions
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Habits
Humans
Inhibition (Psychology)
Male
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Risk taking
Sensitivity
Suppression
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Summary:Only very recently has research demonstrated that experimentally induced emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) affect risky choice (e.g., Heilman et al., 2010). However, it is unknown whether this effect also operates via habitual use of emotion regulation strategies in risky choice involving deliberative decision making. We investigated the role of habitual use of emotion regulation strategies in risky choice using the "cold" deliberative version of the Columbia Card Task (CCT; Figner et al., 2009). Fifty-three participants completed the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ; Gross & John, 2003) and-one month later-the CCT and the PANAS. Greater habitual cognitive reappraisal use was related to increased risk taking, accompanied by decreased sensitivity to changes in probability and loss amount. Greater habitual expressive suppression use was related to decreased risk taking. The results show that habitual use of reappraisal and suppression strategies predict risk taking when decisions involve predominantly cognitive-deliberative processes.
ISSN:0269-9931
1464-0600
DOI:10.1080/02699931.2012.707642