Abstract
The emotional experience and the prediction of risk behaviours. The predictive capacity of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen & Madden, 1986) in a prototypical risk behaviour such as unprotected sex has shown itself to be no more than moderate (Albarracín, Johnson, Fishbein & Muellerleile, 2001). In the present work we chose the behaviour of getting into a vehicle knowing that the driver has drunk excessive alcohol, and we took as predictors of behavioural intention, in addition to the TPB variables, the emotional experience reported by the subject on performing this behaviour in the recent past. Our results indicate the importance of considering people's emotional experience in the past as predictor of intention to repeat the risk behaviour in the future (R2= 49%), the emotional variables being even more relevant than attitude, subjective social norm and perceived control.
