Why does framing influence judgment?

Does Mood Influence Judgment Accuracy?

In this study, we investigated the influence of mood on a production scheduling managerial task by comparing the effects of positive and neutral mood on individual judgments and their accuracy. When the subjects have been exposed to the task and thus have gained experience doing the task, the subjects in a positive mood performed significantly better than the subjects in a neutral mood.

Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?

Recent empirical research seems to show that emotions play a substantial role in moral judgment. Perhaps the most important line of support for this claim focuses on disgust. A number of philosophers and scientists argue that there is adequate evidence showing that disgust significantly influences various moral judgments. And this has been used to support or undermine a range of philosophical t...

Decision framing in judgment aggregation

Judgment aggregation problems are language dependent in that they may be framed in different yet equivalent ways. We formalize this dependence via the notion of translation invariance, adopted from the philosophy of science, and we argue for its normative desirability. We show that in the canonical judgment aggregation model, no reasonable judgment aggregation functions are translation invarian...

Does Affect Influence Judgment When Using a Decision Support System?

Many of the current models of decision making in the Decision Support Systems (DSS) literature assume rational actors that make judgments in an emotional vacuum. The empirical investigations of the past three decades in psychology, however, have shown that every day feeling states can influence the thoughts that come to mind and thereby influence a judgment or decision that relies on those thou...

Does ugliness affect judgment ?