Asutay Erkin, Västfjäll Daniel
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Division of Psychology, Jedi-Lab, Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden.
Decision Research, Eugene, OR, USA.
Commun Psychol. 2024 Dec 20;2(1):126. doi: 10.1038/s44271-024-00178-2.
The role of affect in value-based judgment and decision-making has attracted increasing interest in recent decades. Most previous approaches neglect the temporal dependence of mental states leading to mapping a relatively well-defined, but largely static, feeling state to a behavioral tendency. In contrast, we posit that expected and experienced consequences of actions are integrated over time into a unified overall affective experience reflecting current resources under current demands. This affective integration is shaped by context and continually modulates judgments and decisions. Changes in affective states modulate evaluation of new information (affect-as-information), signal changes in the environment (affect-as-a-spotlight) and influence behavioral tendencies in relation to goals (affect-as-motivation). We advocate for an approach that integrates affective dynamics into decision-making paradigms. This dynamical account identifies the key variables explaining how changes in affect influence information processing may provide us with new insights into the role of affect in value-based judgment and decision-making.
近几十年来，情感在基于价值的判断和决策中的作用引起了越来越多的关注。以往的大多数方法都忽略了心理状态的时间依赖性，导致将相对明确但在很大程度上静态的情感状态映射到行为倾向。相比之下，我们认为，行动的预期和体验后果会随着时间的推移整合为一种统一的整体情感体验，反映当前需求下的当前资源。这种情感整合受情境影响，并持续调节判断和决策。情感状态的变化会调节对新信息的评估（情感即信息）、信号环境的变化（情感即聚光灯），并影响与目标相关的行为倾向（情感即动机）。我们提倡一种将情感动态整合到决策范式中的方法。这种动态解释确定了解释情感变化如何影响信息处理的关键变量，可能为我们提供关于情感在基于价值的判断和决策中的作用的新见解。
