1. Kylie McLaughlin & Athena Peterson

2.  Emotions play a big role when it comes to the every day decisions we make.  You make fast decisions without thinking whether or not it is right or wrong.

3.  According to Dictionary.com emotions are “a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from ones circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.”  There are many different types of emotions  Happy  Sad  Mad  Excited  Ect. These emotions effect the way you make decisions in any situation.

4.  Antonio is a researcher.  His biggest interest is neurobiology, the study of the nervous system, state of mind.  Antonio enjoys studying:  Sub serve memory  Language  Emotion  Decision-Making  Consciousness Something he’s well known for is demonstrating how emotions effect decision making.  http://www.biosynthesis.org/html/antonio_damasio.html

6.  A study was done by a man named Isen. He found out that people who are happy tend to not gamble as much so they can avoid losing the happiness they have.  When they were unhappy they would go out and gamble to get a joy of winning money. If they lost they would still be in a bad mood so it wouldn’t make a difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions_in_decision- making

7.  Logical decision making is when someone uses good reasoning behind their decision without including emotion.  Emotional decision making is typically made really fast. It takes about.1 seconds for the rational cortex to work.  A lot of the decisions made emotionally are not very wise decisions. http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/em otion_decision.htm