Impact of the status quo bias on environmental decision making : moderating effects of affect and need for cognition

Diplôme Master Impact of the status quo bias on environmental decision making : moderating effects of affect and need for cognition eng 2017 author Daoust-Cloutier Solan 760076 director Brosch Tobias 0000-0001-6883-0383 637221 The status quo bias (SQB), known as a heuristic, tends to make us choose the default option more often than the alternative. This is particularly problematic when it comes to sustainable decision-making (DM) since most of the unsustainable options are often labelled as default. Therefore, this study aims to investigate if specific induced emotions and the personality construct of need for cognition (NC), could potentially reduce the SQB in the context of environmental DM. We hypothesized that emotions with higher levels of felt agency and higher levels of NC would both reduce the effect of the SQB in the context of an environmental DM task. To test this we first induced one of three emotional states (pride, neutral and gratitude) in 62 participants, covered as a memory task, and then asked them to assess three environmental DM scenarios... Environment Decision making Status quo bias Default Agency Emotions Need for cognition Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1218 DESISIONLAB Efficience énergétique : affect, décision et comportement 6f37c248-299c-4925-ac94-ba6543c1c345 Master thesis Restricted Mémoire Solan Daoust-Cloutier.pdf 1369073 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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