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Recent theories have focused on the interpersonal effects of emotions\u2014the influence of the decisionmaker\u2019s expressed emotions on observers\u2019 decisions and judgments. In this paper, we examine  whether people assess others\u2019 risk preferences on the basis of their emotional states, whether this  affects their own behavior, and how this assessment matches others\u2019 actual behavior. To test these  ideas, we used an experimental Stag Hunt game (n = 98), and included non\u2010trivial financial  consequences. Participants were told (truthfully) that their counterparts\u2019 previous task had left them  happy, fearful, or emotionally neutral. People who were told their counterparts were fearful  reported that they expected less risky decisions from these counterparts than people told their  counterparts were neutral or happy. As a result, given that the Stag Hunt is a coordination game,  these participants were themselves less risky. Interestingly, these participants\u2019 expectations were  not accurate; thus, coordination failed, and payoffs were low. This raises the possibility of a \u201ccurse  of knowledge\u201d whereby one player\u2019s erroneous beliefs about the effects of the counterpart\u2019s  emotional state leads the first player to make poor action choices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/g8010009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,1]],"date-time":"2017-02-01T10:53:53Z","timestamp":1485946433000},"page":"9","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Assessing Others\u2019 Risk\u2010Taking Behavior from Their Affective States: Experimental Evidence Using a Stag Hunt Game"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7181-0954","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Edgar","family":"Kausel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"799","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-psych-010213-115043","article-title":"Emotion and Decision Making","volume":"66","author":"Lerner","year":"2015","journal-title":"Annu. 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