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Selective exposure to information: How different modes of decision making affect subsequent confirmatory information processing
Author(s) -
Fischer Peter.,
Fischer Julia.,
Weisweiler Silke.,
Frey Dieter.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1348/014466610x499668
Subject(s) - psychology , affect (linguistics) , information processing , confirmatory factor analysis , cognition , feeling , social psychology , decision quality , distraction , cognitive psychology , structural equation modeling , computer science , communication , team effectiveness , knowledge management , machine learning , neuroscience
We investigated whether different modes of decision making (deliberate, intuitive, distracted) affect subsequent confirmatory processing of decision‐consistent and inconsistent information. Participants showed higher levels of confirmatory information processing when they made a deliberate or an intuitive decision versus a decision under distraction (Studies 1 and 2). As soon as participants have a cognitive (i.e., deliberate cognitive analysis) or affective (i.e., intuitive and gut feeling) reason for their decision, the subjective confidence in the validity of their decision increases, which results in increased levels of confirmatory information processing (Study 2). In contrast, when participants are distracted during decision making, they are less certain about the validity of their decision and thus are subsequently more balanced in the processing of decision‐relevant information.