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Post‐decision consolidation: Group members in different social settings compared to individual decision makers
Author(s) -
Eisele Per
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00199
Subject(s) - attractiveness , psychology , consolidation (business) , recall , session (web analytics) , social psychology , facial attractiveness , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , accounting , world wide web , psychoanalysis , business
Two experiments were conducted to examine how making decisions in a 3‐member group affects the degree of post‐decision consolidation, defined as attractiveness changes in favor of the chosen alternative. Both experiments were conducted in two sessions one week apart. In the first session (decision phase), participants estimated the importance of each of four different attributes describing two decision alternatives. They were then shown predetermined attractiveness ratings on each of the attributes and were to decide on the two alternatives, either individually or as a group. In the second session (post‐decision phase), the participants were to attempt to recall the attractiveness ratings for the attributes as presented to them in session one. In both experiments, significant post‐decision consolidation was found for individual decision makers but not for group members. In experiment 2, this result was replicated, no difference in consolidation being found between group members with face‐to‐face interaction and without.