This research takes the first step in exploring how the emotions of choice recipients influence the riskiness of decisions made for them by others. In particular, we focus on the role of sadness—an emotion that has been shown to prompt risk-seeking in choices for self. Across five studies, in monetary and social decisions, participants prefer safer options for sad, relative to neutral-affect others, even when the expected value of the safer option is significantly lower than that of the riskier option. The effect is driven by a desire to protect sad others from further loss or disappointment.

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你应该是安全的：悲伤的他人的风险偏好选择

这项研究迈出了第一步，探索选择接受者的情绪如何影响其他人为他们做出的决策的风险。我们特别关注悲伤的作用——这种情绪已被证明会促使自我选择时寻求风险。在五项研究中，在货币和社会决策中，相对于中性影响的其他人，参与者更喜欢对悲伤的更安全的选择，即使更安全的选择的预期价值明显低于风险更高的选择。产生这种效果的原因是希望保护悲伤的他人免受进一步的损失或失望。