Angry men and disgusted women: An evolutionary approach to the influence of emotions on risk taking
-- Daniel M.T. Fessler, , Elizabeth G. Pillsworth and Thomas J. Flamson, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, V95, Issue 1, September 2004, Pages 107-123 . ..
Participants were asked to make a series of four choices in four independent rounds of play; each choice consisted of a sure payoff option of $15.00 and a chance option to obtain a greater sum of money at a known probability. The expected value of all options was $15.00; chance options were as follows: $18.75 at an 80% chance, $37.50 at a 40% chance, $75.00 at a 20% chance, and $300.00 at a 5% chance.
... among men, participants in the anger condition selected a larger number of risky choices than those in the control condition, yet there was no difference in this regard between the disgust condition and controls. Conversely, among women, while participants in the anger condition did not differ in their choices from controls, participants in the disgust condition selected significantly fewer risky choices than those in the control condition.