Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "emotions"
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Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Across eight experiments, we describe the influence of anxiety on advice seeking and advice taking. We find that anxious individuals are more likely to seek and rely on advice than are those in a neutral emotional state ... -
Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking
(American Psychological Association, 2015)People frequently feel anxious. Although prior research has extensively studied how feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. ... -
Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs
(American Psychological Association, 2014-05-13)Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of "botsourcing"—the replacement of human jobs by robots—while ... -
Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem
(American Psychological Association, 2014-11-25)Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative ... -
Guilt Enhances the Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments
(American Psychological Association, 2014-10-28)The present studies investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism ... -
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from ...