Women and African Americans are less influential when they express anger during group decision making

How anger poisons decision making.

You’re late for work, and it’s pouring rain. In the parking lot, a car speeds around you and takes the last spot near the building entrance. You end up trudging from the back of the lot and get soaked to the skin. You’re mad, and you know your judgment at the moment is probably impaired. Worse, the leftover anger will continue to color your decisions at work, our research suggests, without your...

Cost-Sensitive Learning and Decision-Making When Costs Are Unknown

Claiming health: mammography screening decision making of African American women.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a substantive theory that explains how African American women aged 50 years and older of different socioeconomic status (SES) make decisions about mammography screening. DESIGN Qualitative, grounded theory. SETTING Churches, places of employment, or women's homes in a large city in Ohio. SAMPLE 30 women aged 52-72 years; 16 in the initial sample and 14 in the...

Social justifications for moral emotions: when reasons for disgust are less elaborated than for anger.

In the present research, we tested the unreasoning disgust hypothesis: moral disgust, in particular in response to a violation of a bodily norm, is less likely than moral anger to be justified with cognitively elaborated reasons. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to explain why they felt anger and disgust toward pedophiles. Participants were more likely to invoke elaborated reasons, vers...

Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious?

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety.  Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data...