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@article{Wilson2008BalancingEA, title={Balancing Emotion and Cognition: a Case for Decision Aiding in Conservation Efforts}, author={Robyn S. Wilson}, journal={Conservation Biology}, year={2008}, volume={22}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:36248869}}
  • R. Wilson
  • Published in Conservation Biology 1 December 2008
  • Environmental Science, Psychology

The results from 3 experiments that demonstrate how affect influences individual judgments in complex decision contexts were examined and techniques from the decision-aiding literature were identified that help encourage a balance between affect-based emotion and cognition incomplex decision processes.

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