How Does Affect Influence Decision Making?

People have difficulty predicting what they will want and how they will behave in affective states that are different from their current state. We fail to anticipate what we will think, how we will feel and what we will do when we are actually in those states later. Research shows that it tends to go in both directions. People in hot states underestimate the extent to which their thinking and behavior are influenced by transient affective states. And then he offers up three other categories of hot, cold, ympathy gaps. They can be prospective, retrospective and interpersonal. A huge percentage of the time you spend analyzing yourself is spent trying to make sense of some kind of affective state rather than just your own