Jack Katz, How Emotions Work

How Do Emotions Work?

Have you ever felt happy, sad, angry, or afraid? How about jealous, ashamed, or embarrassed? Almost everybody has these different emotions from time to time, and they can have a big effect on the way people think and act. Because emotions have such a big effect on people’s lives, scientists have spent a lot of time trying to understand how they work. In this paper, we will talk about how emotio...

Emotions at work

We present a goal and belief model of emotions and on this basis we classify the emotions people feel while at work. Among “individual” emotions we distinguish the so-called primary emotions and their “families” from cognitive emotions like curiosity and boredom; among “social” emotions we include those linked to attachment, Image and Self-Image, and the Image of the Other. We describe an empir...

How Emotions Change Time

Experimental evidence suggests that emotions can both speed-up and slow-down the internal clock. Speeding up has been observed for to-be-timed emotional stimuli that have the capacity to sustain attention, whereas slowing down has been observed for to-be-timed neutral stimuli that are presented in the context of emotional distractors. These effects have been explained by mechanisms that involve...

How Does Music Elicit Emotions?

How Do Emotions Influence Saving

Employers have moved away from traditional defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution plans such as 401(k)s. As a result, many individuals are now required to make their own retirement saving and investment decisions, which has raised concerns about their ability and desire to handle these decisions. Since investment choices have major implications for future financial welfare, it is...