 Certainly it is true that emotional influences on decision-making can be profound. Our cultural bias (no doubt elicited by the previous example) is to think of emotions as making decisions worse (Charland, 1998a: 359). But this is to overlook the very real ways that emotion—even strong emotion—can improve decision-making. Moreover, although it is not often acknowledged, it is only because we are creatures with affective capacities that we care about things. A creature completely devoid of emotion or affect would presumably not care about anything and so would have no basis for making decisions (Charland 1998a,b).