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0:00:06i are
0:00:17in everyday life humans are constantly assessing risk and making decisions based on those in
0:00:23section one criterion is used when judging the characteristics or security of the rest
0:00:30and how that's a person's affective states influence the perception of course
0:00:35barcelona yes he affiliated pervasive robin hogarth
0:00:39has investigated the effects of various affective states andreas perception in everyday situations
0:00:46as a student of economic behaviour is always been a special interest understand the way
0:00:51in which perceptions of risk affect behaviour because we know that has a big impact
0:00:56unfortunately we don't understand yet fully one of the non economic variables that affect the
0:01:02perception the risk people taken
0:01:05professor hogarth research extends the economic analysis of risk by emphasising human sensitivity estimated state
0:01:12and emotion and the subjective assessment of birth
0:01:17one important question is whether people's perceptions of risk depend on whether or not there
0:01:23actually taking a decision or thinking about doing so for example imagine overtaking so i
0:01:28somebody and driving a car
0:01:30what is your perception of the risks of the danger that when you're actually doing
0:01:33it compared to
0:01:36before you do it or are you just done it understanding question such this can
0:01:40help us unlock some of the mysteries of human behaviour
0:01:43which by economic standard appears to be on rational
0:01:48but may in fact be quite helpful for individuals
0:01:52together with professors emmanuel update you maybe and on the push at cupid professor hogarth
0:01:58collected data on individual perceptions of risk states and emotional reactions by having them complete
0:02:04questionnaires when prompted by text messages sent to the cell phones at random moments during
0:02:09the working day
0:02:10after completing very text message problem
0:02:13the subjects were asked to rate respectively we assess the risk of six of the
0:02:18page and
0:02:20our findings show the beatles assessments of risk made simultaneously are larger than their assessments
0:02:27made retrospectively
0:02:28and one level you might sit saying this is due to memory by society we
0:02:32don't remember exactly how we felt that the moment we took the rest on the
0:02:36other hand i believe it probably could be explained more by emotions in other words
0:02:40when we take a risk is a hot situations emotional when you think about a
0:02:45subsequently it's cold
0:02:47and we tend to be more impacted by things that are hot and things are
0:02:50cool
0:02:52the most striking finding is that humans simple measures of mute state and emotional reaction
0:02:57can indicate significant effects on perceptions of or
0:03:03affective variables like food and personal control turn out to have an important very important
0:03:09impact on how people take risk
0:03:12it turns out the mood an affix i just incredibly pervasive in people's perceptions of
0:03:17everyday risk
0:03:18i c is an important challenge to economic models an economic theory to understand how
0:03:23to incorporate these core corporate these kinds of factors into models of people's behaviour so
0:03:28we better predict how markets work