Melissa L. Finucane

TL;DR: This article addresses the important questions of how to infuse needed "doses of feeling" into circumstances where lack of experience may otherwise leave us too "coldly rational"?

TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that analytic reasoning cannot be effective unless it is guided by emotion and affect, and argued that rational decision making requires proper integration of both modes of thought.

TL;DR: In this paper, the inverse relationship between perceived risk and perceived benefit was examined and it was shown that people rely on affect when judging the risk and benefit of specific hazards, such as nuclear power.

TL;DR: This article introduced a theoretical framework that describes the importance of affect in guiding judgments and decisions and argued that reliance on such feelings can be characterized as "the affect heuristic" and discussed some of the important practical implications resulting from ways that this heuristic impacts our daily lives.

TL;DR: Although white males again stood apart with respect to their judgements of risk and their attitudes concerning worldviews, trust, and risk-related stigma, the results showed that the distinction between white males and others is more complex than originally thought.