Theory Database - Theory 55: Risk as Feelings Theory

This is a searchable database of theories of behaviour change that have been formalised according to an Ontology-Based Modelling System.

For more information, see:

West, R., Godinho, C. A., Bohlen, L. C., Carey, R. N., Hastings, J., Lefevre, C. E., & Michie, S. (2019). Development of a formal system for representing behaviour-change theories. Nature human behaviour, 3(5), 526. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0561-2.
Hale, J., Hastings, J., West, R., Lefevre, C. E., Direito, A., Connell Bohlen, L., Godinho, C., Anderson, N., Zink, S., Goarke, H., and Michie, S. (2020) An ontology-based modelling system (OBMS) for representing behaviour change theories applied to 76 theories [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research.

Number of Constructs: 10
Number of Triples: 13

Behaviour The engagement, or non-engagement, in a risky behaviour (i.e. the end-point of the decision making process) [ BCIO:036000 (Individual human behaviour) 55 70 8 5 14 62 63 64 78 81 65 77 13 74 79 24 18 53 54 57 69 71 ]
Outcomes The result of whether or not the risky behaviour was engaged in (may be very distal, or both proximal and distal) [ BCIO:050806 (Behavioural consequence) 55 31 41 13 51 4 43 ]
Feelings Affective states that include emotions, drives and desires [ MFOEM:000195 (Affective process) 55 60 54 ]
Cognitive evaluation Evaluations of risky alternatives at a cognitive level (based largely on the probability and desirability of associated consequences) [ BCIO:006038 (Evaluative belief) 55 53 64 1 12 14 ]
Subjective probablities Subjective opinions of how likely the anticipated outcomes are to occur [ BCIO:006024 (Belief about likelihood of consequences of behaviour) 55 74 48 77 ]
Anticipated outcomes Predicted outcomes, including anticipatory emotions, of each risky response alternative [ BCIO:006019 (Belief about the consequences of behaviour) 55 74 79 32 1 80 ]
Other factors Additional factors that are not considered in one’s evaluations, including the immediacy of a risk, salience of a risk and one’s underlying mood state
Vividness
Background mood [ MFOEM:000195 (Affective process) 55 60 54 ]
Immediacy

Lowenstein, G.F., Weber, E.U., Hsee, C.K. & Welch, N. (2001). Risk as Feelings. Psychological Bulletin, 127(2), 267-286.