Affect, emotion, and decision making

•The influence of incidental mood states and discrete emotions on decision making.•The influence of integral affect on decision making.•Affect and emotion as a consequence of decision making.•The role of regret in decision making.•Potential limitations of extant work on affect, emotion, and decision making.•Promising areas for future research on affect, emotion, and decision making.

This article reviews research on affect, emotion, and decision making published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes from the 1990s onward. The review is organized around four topical areas: the influence of incidental mood states and discrete emotions on decision making, the influence of integral affect on decision making, affect and emotion as a consequence of decision making, and the role of regret in decision making. Some potential limitations of extant work on affect, emotion, and decision making are discussed. Lastly, particularly promising directions for future research are elaborated including intuition and decision making, ethical decision making, and affect and emotion over time and decision making.