Epistemic motivation

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veli Mitova
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Motivation

When Do Auditors Use Specialists' Work to Improve Problem Representations of and Judgments about Complex Estimates?

2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily E. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Situational Factor ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Audit ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Epistemic Motivation ◽  
Specific Expertise ◽  
Problem Representations

ABSTRACT Auditors are more likely to identify misstatements in complex estimates if they recognize problematic patterns among an estimate's underlying assumptions. Rich problem representations aid pattern recognition, but auditors likely have difficulty developing them given auditors' limited domain-specific expertise in this area. In two experiments, I predict and find that a relational cue in a specialist's work highlighting aggressive assumptions improves auditors' problem representations and subsequent judgments about estimates. However, this improvement only occurs when a situational factor (e.g., risk) increases auditors' epistemic motivation to incorporate the cue into their problem representations. These results suggest that auditors do not always respond to cues in specialists' work. More generally, this study highlights the role of situational factors in increasing auditors' epistemic motivation to develop rich problem representations, which contribute to high-quality audit judgments in this and other domains where pattern recognition is important.

Does Customer Experience Always Benefit Company? Examining Customers’ Epistemic Motivation and Interaction With Service Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492199886
Author(s):  
Vu Thi Mai Chi ◽  
Widya Paramita ◽  
Tran Ha Minh Quan
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Epistemic Motivation ◽  
Engagement Behavior ◽  
Company Identification ◽  
Employee Identification

The main purpose of this study is explaining how and when customer experience benefits the company. Built upon social identity theory, we propose that customer experience leads to customer engagement behavior, via two routes: customer-company and customer-employee identification. Furthermore, we advance that customers’ epistemic motivation negatively moderates the mediated effect of customer experience on customer engagement behavior. We ran two studies to validate the measurement of customer experience and to test our hypotheses. For the two studies, we employed a survey method by recruiting consumers of beauty salons in Vietnam. The results demonstrated that EXQ as a measurement for customer experience is applicable to the context of the study and provided empirical support for the hypotheses. Such as, this research found that customer experience positively influences customer engagement behavior as mediated by customer-company and customer-employee identification. Furthermore, this research revealed that customer epistemic motivation negatively moderates the mediated effect of customer experience on customer engagement behavior via customer-employee identification. However, the moderating role of customer epistemic motivation is insignificant for the mediated relationship via customer-company identification. Finally, this research offers theoretical and practical contributions that are elaborated and further discussed.

Individual Differences in Miserly Thinking Predict Endorsement of Racial/Ethnic Stereotypes

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 405-421
Author(s):  
John C. Blanchar ◽  
David J. Sparkman
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Reflection Test ◽  
Cognitive Efficiency ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Epistemic Motivation ◽  
Stereotype Endorsement ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Cognitive Miser

The “cognitive miser” metaphor is a classic characterization of mental life wherein cognitive efficiency is favored over careful and reflective thinking. A presumed implication is that reliance on intuitive processing in the absence of reflective thinking should encourage stereotyping. However, research to date has not adequately tested whether proclivities to engage reflective thinking correspond with less stereotype endorsement, nor if their influence occurs independent of cognitive ability and epistemic motivation. In two studies, we conducted straightforward tests of this hypothesis by measuring individual differences in miserly or reflective thinking, cognitive ability, and epistemic motivation as unique predictors of stereotype endorsement. We utilized objective, performance-based measures of reflective thinking via the Cognitive Reflection Test. The results provide the first direct evidence for the cognitive miser hypothesis. Individual differences in miserly thinking predicted endorsements of racial/ethnic stereotypes independent of cognitive ability and epistemic motivation.

The PFAD-HEC Model: Impacts of News Attributes and Use Motivations on Selective News Exposure

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Mothes ◽  
Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick ◽  
George D H Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Online News ◽  
Informational Needs ◽  
Lab Experiment ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Epistemic Motivation ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
News Use

Abstract This study examined effects of four common news attributes—personalization, fragmentation, authority–disorder bias, and dramatization (PFAD)—on news exposure and the moderating impacts of hedonic, epistemic, and civic news use motivations. In a lab experiment, participants browsed online news while selective exposure was unobtrusively logged. Findings yielded longer exposure to personalized and dramatized articles and news with low authority–disorder bias. Fragmentation had no significant impact. However, selective exposure to fragmented news was influenced by participants’ political understanding (epistemic motivation), exposure to personalization by news enjoyment (hedonic motivation), and exposure to authority–disorder bias by civic duty to keep informed (civic motivation). Results suggest that news styles may need to become more diversified to better address the informational needs of today’s fragmented audiences.

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