Epistemic motivation, negative emotional arousal and predecisional information processing

• Authors: Kossowska M. , Wichary Sz.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It has been demonstrated that negative emotional arousal reduces the amount of information used in judgment tasks. We hypothesize that it should similarly increase the tendency to simplify predecisional information processing in a multiattribute choice task, which could be described as a use of a simple strategy. However, it is possible that the motivation to avoid cognitive closure modifies the relation between negative emotional arousal and the simplification of information processing, and results in the use of complex decision strategies. The results obtained in two consecutive experiments support both hypotheses: under arousal participants use simple decision strategies to a greater extent. Moreover, under both negative emotional arousal and motivation to avoid cognitive closure they tend to use more complex decision rules.

Keywords

EN

AROUSAL; DECISION RULES; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEED TO AVOID CLOSURE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 88-98
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kossowska M.

author

Wichary Sz.

• M. Kossowska, Uniwersytyet Jagiellonski, Instytut Psychologii, al. Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Kraków

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02875847