Methodological Review The role of emotion in decision-making: A cognitive neuroeconomic approach towards understanding sexual risk behavior

Decision-making models usually focus on cognitive, contextual, and socio-cultural variables to account for human performance. However, emotional components are rarely addressed in these models. In this article we will review evidence of its role in the emotional aspects of decision making and its neuroeconomics, a new research framework. The new approach aims to establish a comprehensive decision making theory by integrating theories and methods of economics, psychology, and neuroscience. In this article we will review these integrated research methods and their application to public health problems and take our research on young people's safe behavior as an example. This approach is expected to be a comprehensive, descriptive, potentially better predictive model for building and customizing decision-support tools for health professionals and consumers.

Behavioral economics accounts for these anomalies by integrating social, cognitive and emotional factors to understand economic decisions. Neuroeconomics adds another layer by using a neuroscientific method to understand the interaction between economic behavior and neural mechanism. Some scholars argue that neuroeconomics provides a more integrated way to understand decisions by using tools in different areas.

Decision-making models usually focus on cognitive, contextual, and socio-cultural variables to account for human performance. However, emotional components are rarely addressed in these models. In this article we will review evidence of its role in the emotional aspects of decision making and its neuroeconomics, a new research framework. The new approach aims to establish a comprehensive decision making theory by integrating theories and methods of economics, psychology, and neuroscience. In this article we will review these integrated research methods and their application to public health problems and take our research on young people's safe behavior as an example. This approach is expected to be a comprehensive, descriptive, potentially better predictive model for building and customizing decision-support tools for health professionals and consumers.

Methodology to review the role of emotions in decision making: a cognitive and neuroeconomic approach to understanding sexual risk behavior

Traditional literature attributes the role of judgment in risk perception and decision-making to recognition rather than emotion. However, recent research suggests a link between emotion and cognition. Because it is related to decision making in a high risk environment. A survey on decision making in a high risk environment shows that individuals who judge as intuitive decision makers tend to make decisions quickly. For example, an intuitive decision-maker who avoids risk chooses not to participate in a dangerous event earlier than a reviewer, but chooses not to participate in more cases than considering a decision maker To do.

Teenagers were known for high risk activities and rash decisions during their teens. Recent studies have shown that cognitive processes differ between adolescents and adults in the decision-making process. Researchers concluded that the difference in decision is not due to lack of logic or reasoning, but due to immature psychosocial abilities affecting decision making. Examples of undeveloped capabilities that affect decision-making include impulsive management, regulation of mood, delay in satisfaction, resistance to pressure from colleagues. In the past, researchers believed that adolescent behavior was simply due to the inefficiency of the decision-making process. Currently, researchers conclude that not only adults but adults and adolescents are competent decision makers. However, as psychosocial abilities emerge, decision-making skills regarding young people's abilities will decline.