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Rational emotions.

Meir Meshulam¹, Eyal Winter, Gershon Ben-Shakhar

¹Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Social Neuroscience

|September 23, 2011

Summary

Individuals can consciously control emotions for strategic advantage. A study showed participants incentivized to feel anger experienced more physiological arousal and anger in response to unfair offers in the dictator game.

Area of Science:

Behavioral Economics
Neuroscience
Psychology

Background:

Emotions significantly influence decision-making processes.
Previous research highlights the critical role of emotions in human behavior.
The concept of rational emotions suggests emotions can be consciously managed.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the concept of rational emotions, where emotions are consciously controlled and utilized.
To investigate the interplay between rational choice and the selection of emotional states.
To examine if individuals can be incentivized to adopt specific emotional responses.

Main Methods:

Participants engaged in the dictator game as recipients.
A subset of recipients received monetary incentives to express anger towards low-split offers.

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Physiological arousal and self-reported anger were measured.

Main Results:

Participants incentivized to be angry exhibited greater physiological arousal when faced with low-split offers compared to high-split offers.
The incentivized group reported higher levels of anger than control participants.
This demonstrates a capacity for directed emotional response.

Conclusions:

Emotions can be strategically controlled and employed through rational processes.
Findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of rational decision-making models.
This research offers a new perspective on the integration of emotion and rationality in human behavior.