[Step-by-Step] Guilt in decision making. The effect of guilt emotion on how a decision maker focuses on the problem was investigated in the Jan. 2007 issue


Question: Guilt in decision making. The effect of guilt emotion on how a decision maker focuses on the problem was investigated in the Jan. 2007 issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision. Making (see Exercises 1.26 and 3.40, pp. 24 and 139—140). A total of 171 volunteer students participated in the experiment, where each was randomly amigned to one of three emotional states (guilt. anger, or neutral) through a readinglwriting task. Immediately after the task. students were presented with a decision problem where the stated option has predominantly negative features (eg, spending money on repairing a very old car). The results (number responding in each category) are summarized in the accompanying table. Is there sufficient ew’dence (at α = .10) to claim that the option choice depends on emotional state? Use the data saved in the GUILT file to answer the question

Emotional State Choose Stated option Do not choose stated option Total
Guilt 45 12 57
Anger 8 50 58
Neutral 7 49 56
Tot al 60 111 171

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