The effect of guilt emotion on how a decision maker focuses on a problem was investigated in the Jan. 2007 issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (see Exercise 3.44). A total of 171 volunteer students participated in the experiment, where each was randomly assigned to one of three emotional states (guilt, anger, or neutral) through a reading/writing task. Immediately after the task, students were presented with a decision problem where the stated option had predominantly negative features (e.g., spending money on repairing a very old car). The results (number responding in each category) are summarized in the accompanying table. Is there sufficient evidence (at α = .10) to claim that the option choice depended on emotional state? Use the data saved to answer the question.

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Emotional State Guilt Anger Neutral Choose Stated Option 45 Do Not Choose Stated Option 12 50 49 Totals 57 58 56 Totals 60