title: Dental decisions--an emotional experience?
abstract: This article discusses the psychological literature on emotion, highlighting the effect of emotion on decision-making. This is applied to the example of dentistry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article explores how the everyday decisions of both the patient and the dentist are influenced by their emotions.
authors.affiliation: School of Dentistry, Cardiff University.
authors.forename: Ilona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Ivor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chestnutt
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D003729:Dental Care / Q000523:psychology; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D004644:Emotions / Q000145:classification; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D009042:Motivation; D010358:Patient Participation