Do the positive effects of emotions on decision making outweigh the negative effects?
Steward et al. (2010); Manz (1986)
Introduction
During the whole process of life, people want to make so many decisions. When students graduate from the degree of bachelor, they have to make decisions if they need to continue their master degree. When girls go shopping together and see the beautiful goods which they really like but not necessary, they want to think about if they require buying that. When children have many problems to face about their real life, parents should think about if they would overcome the problems together with their children or not. There is no doubt that these examples can be all impacted by the emotions and these all depend on the feelings in that timing of making their decisions. Emotions can be defined as the feelings related to the experience, things or people that offer the creation of runnable actions. There are two dimensions about the emotion, including evaluation which has positive evaluation and negative evaluation and activation which has low activation and high activation. Actually, the positive emotions are very important to every people. When people in the positive mood, they will be more flexible, creative and open to the suggestions. In addition, it is more likely to see and receive the things what people want in the positive emotions. Furthermore, people in the positive state always try to find things to make them in the positive emotions. If they are in the negative state, they will also find things to maintain themselves in the negative emotions, rather than change their current state. As we all know that people will benefit from the positive emotions. Therefore, people try to find means to increase the positive emotions. It is very hard to decide how to increase the positive emotions. Several downstream behaviours are used, but