Niedernhuber, Julia and Kastenmueller, Andreas and Fischer, Peter (2014) Chaos and Decision Making: Contextual Disorder Reduces Confirmatory Information Processing. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 36 (3). pp. 199-208. ISSN 0197-3533, 1532-4834
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When making decisions, individuals tend to systematically prefer information that supports their a priori views over information that conflicts with them. This phenomenon is known as confirmatory information processing. The present research investigated whether contextual disorder-a factor that is typically irrelevant to a given decision case yet can significantly influence decision quality-affects confirmatory information processing. In Study 1, decision makers in untidy environments evinced less confirmatory information processing than decision makers in tidy environments. Study 2 replicated this finding and demonstrated that divergent thinking is an important precondition of the relationship between disorder and confirmatory information processing.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SELECTIVE-EXPOSURE; UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT; DIVERGENT THINKING; PREFERENCE; SEARCH; IMPACT; BIAS; ACCESSIBILITY; INCUBATION; CREATIVITY; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2019 09:08 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2019 09:08 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/10979 |
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