Guilt in decision making. The effect of guilt emotion on how a decision maker focuses on a problem was investigated in the Jan. 2007 issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (see Exercise 1.32. p. 28). A total of 171 volunteer students participated in the experiment, where each was randomly assigned to one of three emotional states (guilt. anger, or neutral) through a reading/writing task. Immediately after the task, students were presented with a decision problem where the stated option had predominantly negative features (e.g., spending money on repairing a very old car). The results (number responding in each category) are summarized in the accompanying table Suppose one of the 171 participants IS selected at random
- a. Find the
probability that the respondent is assigned to the guilty state. - b. Find the probability that the respondent chooses the stated option (repair the car).
- c. Find the probability that the respondent is assigned to the guilty state and chooses the stated option.
- d. Find the probability that the respondent is assigned to the guilty state or chooses the stated option.
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