The Relation between Cognition and Affect in Moral Judgements about Risks

It seems to be a platitude that emotions and feelings are irrational and need to be corrected by reason. We also see this reflected in studies about risk perception:

Because risk as feeling tends to overweight frightening consequences, we need to invoke risk as analysis to give us perspective on the likelihood of such consequences.

(Slovic et al, 2004, p320; italics in original)