The moderating role of personal relevance on differential priming of anxiety and sadness on perceived travel risk: a replication.
Raghunathan and Pham conducted a pioneer study in 1999 on the motivational influences of anxiety and sadness on decision making and indicated that anxiety would motivate individuals to be risk averse, whereas sadness would motivate individuals to be risk taking. A replication study was employed in the domain of perceived travel risk. Compared to participants in a neutral mood, anxious participants showed higher perceived travel risk than sad participants. Moreover, the differential effect of anxiety and sadness on perceived travel risk was only pronounced under the high personal relevance condition, in which participants made personal decisions and expected that they would be affected by the outcomes. In general, the results extend the notion proposed by Raghunathan and Pham suggesting that travelers' implicit goals primed by anxiety or sadness used for mood-repair purposes appear to be moderated by personal relevance.
Chiou
Wen-Bin
WB
Institute of Education, National Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 70, Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung City, 804 Taiwan. wbchiou@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Chang
Ming-Hsu
MH
Chen
Chien-Lung
CL
D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D011386:Projective Techniques; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012449:Safety; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014195:Travel / Q000523:psychology*