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SUBMITTER: Charpentier CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4904352 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20160412 6
Intuitively, how you feel about potential outcomes will determine your decisions. Indeed, an implicit assumption in one of the most influential theories in psychology, prospect theory, is that feelings govern choice. Surprisingly, however, very little is known about the rules by which feelings are transformed into decisions. Here, we specified a computational model that used feelings to predict choices. We found that this model predicted choice better than existing value-based models, showing a ...[more]