Why do bad moods increase self-defeating behavior? Emotion, risk tasking, and self-regulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6199281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Pezza Leith (Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author), Roy F Baumeister (0000-0003-1413-3296) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1250-1267 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037//0022-3514.71.6.1250 |
| PMID | 8979390 |
| OpenAlex | W2057244545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 204 |
| References cited | 6 |
Increased risk taking may explain the link between bad moods and self-defeating behavior. In Study 1, personal recollections of self-defeating actions implicated bad moods and resultant risky decisions. In Study 2, embarrassment increased the preference for a long-shot (high-risk, high-payoff) lottery over a low-risk, low-payoff one. Anger had a similar effect in Study 3. Study 4 replicated this and showed that the effect could be eliminated by making participants analyze the lotteries rationally, suggesting that bad moods foster risk taking by impairing self-regulation instead of by altering subjective utilities. Studies 5 and 6 showed that the risky tendencies are limited to unpleasant moods accompanied by high arousal; neither sadness nor neutral arousal resulted in destructive risk taking.
Anger · Arousal · Autoregulation · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive reappraisal · Developmental psychology · Ego Depletion · Embarrassment · Emotional Regulation · Expressive Suppression · Human multitasking · Lottery · Preference · Sadness · Self-control · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
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