First, research from several areas suggests that the yearning associated with hope should affect consumers’ uncertainty about the consequences of risky choice, which shifts their assessment to the possibility that negative consequences will not occur. Research in the medical domain shows that consumers overestimate medical risk when their emotions are negative, and they underestimate medical risk when their emotions are positive (Bowen et al. 2003). In a marketing domain, Chaudhuri (2002) finds that negative