Anxiety

"Central for evoking anxiety is the perception of threat or danger" (Mitte, 2007, p. 244).

"Anxiety promotes pessimistic appraisals of future events...anxious individuals typically anticipate high levels of distress given the occurrence of a negative event (Maner et al., 2007, p. 666).

References:

Maner, Jon K, et al. "Dispositional Anxiety and Risk-avoidant Decision-making." Personality and Individual Differences 42.4 (2007): 665-75. Print.

Mitte, Kristin. "Anxiety and Risky Decision-making: The Role of Subjective Probability and Subjective Costs of Negative Events." Personality and Individual Differences 43.2 (2007): 243-53. Science Direct. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.