A Developmental Study of Cognitive Processes in Decision Making: Information Searching as a Function of Task Complexity

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Nakajima ◽  
Miho Hotta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Search Pattern ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Elimination By Aspects ◽  
Information Search Behavior ◽  
Feature Information ◽  
Peeling Off

This study examined the development of information search behavior in decision making. 75 subjects, aged 12 to 23 yr., made choices among 3 or 6 alternatives described by 6 or 12 features and displayed in matrix form. Before making their choices, subjects freely examined feature information about the alternatives by peeling off stickers that covered the information in matrix cells. Analysis indicated that age was unrelated to the number of information cells examined but was related to order of examination. Haphazard searching through the matrices decreased significantly by age 14, and a search pattern related to a choice process of “elimination by aspects” was clearly detected by age 16. Developmental and methodological implications of the results are discussed.

Choice Conflict and Subjective Uncertainty in Decision Making

1966 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Driscoll ◽  
Jerome J. Tognoli ◽  
John T. Lanzetta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Choice Situation ◽  
Response Uncertainty ◽  
Subjective Uncertainty ◽  
Choice Conflict ◽  
Information Search Behavior ◽  
The Individual

Subjective uncertainty and information search behavior were examined as a function of response uncertainty ( H), estimated from the number and relative likelihood of responses elicited by tachistoscopically presented pictures. Both subjective uncertainty and search increased with H and S's information search correlated positively with reports of subjective uncertainty. The data suggest that: (a) subjective uncertainty (S.U.) and search behavior are related to uncertainty based on the number and relative strength of the responses elicited by a choice situation; magnitude estimates of S.U. and search increased with H, the weighted uncertainty of the individual competing choice tendencies; and (b) subjective uncertainty mediates predecisional information search behavior; the greater the magnitude of S.U. elicited by a problem, the more S searches.

scholarly journals PERILAKU INFORMASI DAN PREFERENSI UNIVERSITAS PADA GENERASI MILENIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-287
Author(s):  
Afred Suci ◽  
Satria Tri Nanda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Millennial Students ◽  
Information Search Behavior

Digital era has shifted the role and information search behavior of selecting university. This study aims to map the role of influencer and decision maker and so as to analyze millennial student’s information search behavior for private universities. Respondent consists of 200 new students in seven private universities located in Riau Province, Indonesia. Data analyzed by using descriptive and chi-square for non-parametric statistic. Study reveals that millennial students autonomously become either prime influencer or decision maker in selecting campus destination. The main information source for millennial students are digital platforms and their peer community. There is no significant relationship between student's background and role of influencer. Meanwhile, student’s area of origin and their working status have a significant relationship with the role of final decision making. On the contrary, parents’ domicile, previous high school, and choice of study department have no significant relationship with the role of final decision making. The most important information for private university applicants are the availability and completeness of campus facilities, detail of tuition fee, and information of scholarship opportunities.  

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

Process Accountability as a De-Escalation Technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Klaus Moser ◽  
Hans-Georg Wolff ◽  
Roman Soucek
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Escalation Of Commitment ◽  
Tunnel Vision ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Performance Problems ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Biased Information

Abstract. Escalation of commitment occurs when a course of action is continued despite repeated drawbacks (e.g., maintaining an employment relationship despite severe performance problems). We analyze process accountability (PA) as a de-escalation technique that helps to discontinue a failing course of action and show how time moderates both the behavioral and cognitive processes involved: (1) Because sound decisions should be based on (hopefully unbiased) information search, which requires time to gather, the effect of PA on de-escalation increases over time. (2) Because continuing information search creates behavioral commitment, the debiasing effect of PA on information search diminishes over time. (3) Consistent with the tunnel vision notion, the effects of less biased information search on de-escalation decrease over time.

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