{
  "title": "A risky decision: is your emotion really about the issue at hand?",
  "url": "https://shr.swiss/blog/decision-risquee-votre-emotion-vient-elle-du-dossier-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-06-10",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://shr.swiss",
    "address": "184 route de Saint-Julien, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An emotion can influence a decision even when that decision did not trigger it. For managers, distinguishing relevant signals from carried-over feelings is an exercise in judgement.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Emotional Intelligence",
  "place": {
    "name": "Lucerne",
    "region": "Lucerne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "1. What the literature establishes: negative emotions are not interchangeable",
      "point": "Jennifer S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "2. The mechanism: an emotion can carry over to another issue",
      "point": "Jennifer S."
    },
    {
      "heading": "3. The premature conclusion: decide without emotion",
      "point": "It would be excessive to conclude that good decisions require an absence of emotion."
    },
    {
      "heading": "4. The limits: an experimental effect is not an individual diagnosis",
      "point": "These studies do not allow us to predict a manager's decision from their apparent emotion."
    },
    {
      "heading": "5. A practical check in Lucerne",
      "point": "In Lucerne, tourism, hospitality, regional financial services and industrial SMEs provide a relevant setting for this precaution: in the many family-run businesses with short lines of communication and strong regional ties, one manager may move rapidly between very different conversations."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Keltner",
      "year": "2001",
      "source": "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Loewenstein",
      "year": "2004",
      "source": "Psychological Science"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 417,
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://shr.swiss/formation-intelligence-emotionnelle-lucerne",
    "city": "https://shr.swiss/formations-ville/lucerne",
    "blog": "https://shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}