PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Emotional decisions: How emotions affect decision making Making emotional decisions is natural. For example, if you’re feeling happy, you might decide to walk home via a sunny park. But if you’d been chased by a dog as a child, that same sunny park might trigger feelings of fear, and you’d take the bus instead.

Detailed explanation-2: -Emotional processes contribute to moral judgment by assigning affective value to the moral decision-making scenarios, thus guiding the distinction between acceptable and inacceptable behaviors (Haidt, 2001).

Detailed explanation-3: -Emotions Can Help You Make Decisions Even in situations where you believe your decisions are guided purely by logic and rationality, emotions play a key role. Emotional intelligence, or your ability to understand and manage emotions, has been shown to play an important role in decision-making.

Detailed explanation-4: -Emotional and rational decision-making have been pitted against each other for decades, In Kahneman’s book, ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’, they are described as two separate systems of thinking; an emotional and intuitive process which happens first followed by the slower and more effortful process of rational logic.