Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2013;27(2):318-25. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2012.703130. Epub 2012 Jul 11.
It has been proposed that angry people exhibit optimistic risk estimates about future events and, consequently, are biased towards making risk-seeking choices. The goal of this study was to directly test the hypothesised effect of trait anger on optimism and risk-taking behaviour. One hundred healthy volunteers completed questionnaires about personality traits, optimism and risk behaviour. In addition their risk tendency was assessed with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), which provides an online measure of risk behaviour. Our results partly confirmed the relation between trait anger and outcome expectations of future life events, but suggest that this optimism does not necessarily translate into actual risk-seeking behaviour.
有人提出，愤怒的人对未来事件表现出乐观的风险估计，因此偏向于做出冒险的选择。本研究的目的是直接检验特质愤怒对乐观和冒险行为的假设影响。100 名健康志愿者完成了关于个性特征、乐观和冒险行为的问卷。此外，他们的风险倾向还通过气球模拟风险任务（BART）进行评估，该任务提供了一种在线风险行为测量方法。我们的研究结果部分证实了特质愤怒与未来生活事件结果预期之间的关系，但表明这种乐观并不一定会转化为实际的冒险行为。
