present research showed that trait EI is related to risk taking through the decision makers’ self-motivation. These results … provide novel insights into research investigating the connections between emotional intelligence, decision science and …

emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision …We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an … experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either …

This paper experimentally investigates how emotions are associated with option prices and risk perception. Using a … binary lottery, we find evidence that the emotion 'surprise' plays a significant role in the negative correlation between … lottery returns and estimates of the price of a put option. Our findings shed new light on various existing theories on …