· 2001
Emotions and cost–benefit assessment: The role of shame and self-esteem in risk taking.
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Short summary
Shame and pride, influenced by self-esteem levels, bias cost-benefit assessments to promote rank-striving and approval-seeking behaviors, with serotonin playing a key role.
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Key points
- Shame and pride bias cost-benefit assessments to serve rank-striving and approval-seeking.
- Self-esteem levels modulate the frequency of these emotional influences on decision-making.
- This mechanism allows for risk-taking adjustments based on future prospects.
- Serotonin is identified as a key neurotransmitter involved in this emotional regulation system.
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Abstract
Ethnographic and experimental findings indicate that emotions influence decision making in a number of ways, including the weighting of cost/benefit assessments. One pair of emotions, Shame and Pride, bias such assessments in the service of both rank-striving and approval-seeking behaviors. The frequency with which these emotions influence decision making is determined by self-esteem, a mechanism which sums events to date. This allows for the adjustment of risk taking choices in light of future prospects. Studies of humans and nonhuman primates suggest that serotonin, a neurotransmitter, plays a key role in such a system. In the environment in which humans evolved, this patterned attunement of cost/benefit assessments would have optimized fitness.
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Field: Social Psychology
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