One's own emotions may influence someone else's behavior in a social interaction. If one believes this, s/he has an incentive to game emotions-to strategically modify the expression of a current emotional state-in an attempt to influence her/his counterpart. In a series of three experiments,...

In this chapter we apply a unified theoretical conceptualization (see also Andrade, 2005) that includes both informational and goal-directed properties of affect to three important substantive research streams (risk taking, helping, eating patterns). These behaviors have not previously been...