Trust in feelings project
The underlying implicit processes of the human brain based on feelings and
absorbing new information.
Table of
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Purpose of study +
theory Study design
• H1. Reliance on feelings has a positive effect on
pre-decisional information distortion.
• “The tendency of individuals to bias their evaluation of new information in favour of a preferred option by cohering new information to that preferred option.”
• H2. The consistency goal mediates the relationship between
reliance on feelings and pre-decisional information distortion.
• Implicit cognitive processes (contribution – process evidence) • System 1 thinking (automatic & unconscious) à associative
processing à pattern-based processing à implicit seeking of consistencies à pattern true or false à pre-decisional
• IV – reliance on feelings (Martel et al, 2019)
• H1. Reliance on feelings has a positive effect on
pre-decisional information distortion.
• H2. The consistency goal mediates the
relationship between reliance on feelings and pre-decisional information distortion.
• Mediator analysis 10,000 bootstrap samples (Hayes)
• N = 314 & N = 61
• Extra analysis
• Two-way ANOVA
• Instructions absent vs. present • Predicted direction
• IV - Instructions absent
• Feelings salient
• M - Consistency goal
• Slow internet speed
• DV - Distortion task
• K & J
• Changed product