Discuss the impact of emotions on decision making. Describe a time you had to make a difficult decision. Which theory of emotion fits best? Discuss this theory compared to other theories in scientific journals.

How many times have you regretted making a decision in a certain emotional state? You have probably noticed that you are more prone to taking risks when you feel happy, while sadness has the opposite effect on you.

Making decisions when we are angry does not usually work well, nor if the decision is made in a state of euphoria.

Have you ever been carried away by the first impression to decide? Are you aware of the extent to which your emotions are manipulable to help you make decisions?

"The great value of knowing how to surrender is that each and every one of the feelings can be left at any time and anywhere in an instant and can be done continuously and effortlessly" - David R Hawkins

Heuristic affect is a mental shortcut that allows people to make decisions and solve problems quickly and efficiently. This process is influenced by emotion (fear, pleasure, surprise, etc.), that is, the emotional response affects the decision, playing a main role in decision-making.

It is a process that works below consciousness and that shortens decision-making time, allowing people to function without having to perform an exhaustive search for information. This way of acting occurs quickly and involuntarily in response to a stimulus, so the process affects the mood for a short period of time.

Heuristic affect usually arises while we judge the risks and benefits of something, depending on the positive or negative feelings that we associate with a stimulus. It is the equivalent of acting according to the heart.

This video demonstrates how emotional change conditions behavior change, that is, moving from one emotion to another, produces behavior change in a given situation. The first emotion that drivers experience is anger, behavior (not I assume fine). Second emotion is compassion, behavior (I assume fine).

Researchers have found that if your feelings about something are positive, then you are likely to judge the risks as undervalued and overestimate the benefits, whereas if your feelings toward an activity are negative, you are more likely to overestimate the risks as high and underestimate the benefits.

Research has shown that risks and benefits are negatively correlated in people's minds. Research has revealed that people make their judgments about an activity or technology not only by what they think about it, but also by how they feel about it.

When we are arguing with someone and we have to make a decision or issue a sensitive comment, the best decision should be made tomorrow. Many bad decisions have been made in the throes of an emotional outburst.

Human beings are far from being the rational machine that some aspire to be. Whether we want it or not; our mind is prepared and predisposed to make decisions quickly and using only part of the information. In fact, many times we make decisions before realizing that we have made them and we continue to go round and round something that for us already has a destination: the one we have chosen.

One of the objectives that we work on in the center is the training of awareness of change of emotional state, which conditions people with neurological diseases to learn to manage or perform appropriate behaviors for the person using it as a tool to develop such change of state the Neurolinguistic Programming.

THE MOMENT I HAD TO MAKE A HARD DECISION

It was when I was 12 years old and I was coming from school with my cousin, on the way we had to go through a climb and on that way a wild cow came out, I don't know when my cousin and I had already jumped over a barbed wire fence over a meter high.

FITS IN THIS FACT THE THEORY OF FEAR

THE FEAR

Fear is an emotion characterized by an intense unpleasant sensation caused by the perception of a danger, real or supposed, present, future or even past. It is a primary emotion that derives from the natural aversion to risk or threat, and it manifests in all animals, including humans. The ultimate expression of fear is terror. Furthermore, fear is related to anxiety.

There is real fear when its dimension is in correspondence with the dimension of the threat. Neurotic fear exists when the intensity of the fear attack has nothing to do with the danger. Both real fear and neurotic fear were terms defined by Sigmund Freud in his theory of fear. Currently there are two different concepts about fear, which correspond to the two great psychological theories that we have: behaviorism and deep psychology. According to behavioral thinking fearor is it something learned. In the deep psychology model, the existing fear corresponds to an unconscious and unresolved basic conflict, to which it refers.