NEED FOR COGNITION AND RATIONALITY IN DECISION-MAKING

• Authors: Curseu P. L.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper addresses the relation between the need for cognition and rationality in decision-making and also reconsiders the relation between need for cognition and the framing effect using modified versions of the Asian disease task. In the first study (N = 205), a significant and positive relationship was obtained between need for cognition and the rationality of decision-makers. Also a negative and significant relationship was obtained between need for cognition and indecisiveness. These findings are consistent with the theoretical propositions hypothesized in the need for cognition theory (Cacioppo et al., 1996). The second study (N = 462) is an in-depth analysis of the relation between the need for cognition and the framing effect, revealing a positive and significant relation between need for cognition and the respondents' preference for the probabilistic framed alternatives in two risky choice framing effect tasks.

Keywords

EN

DECISION-MAKING; FRAMING EFFECT; NEED FOR COGNITION; RATIONALITY

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 141-156
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Curseu P. L.

• P. L. Curseu, Department of Psychology, 'Babes-Bolyai' University Cluj-Napoca, Romania & Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University, Room, S161, Warandelaan 2, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA01282910