What makes you so sure? Effects of epistemic motivations on judgmental confidence

• Published in: Organizational behavior and human decision processes Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 162 - 183
• Main Authors: Mayseless, Ofra, Kruglanski, Arie W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.04.1987; Elsevier; Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc
• Series: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
• Subjects: Behavior. Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; Confidence; Decision making; Experiments; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hypotheses; Judgments; Motivation; Organizational behavior; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social psychology; Studies; Impression formation; Human; Social perception; Epistemology; Motivation; Attitude; Confidence; Decision making; Methodological bias; Social desirability; Social cognition; Judgment

Three experiments examined the effects of motivational variables on the epistemic (or knowledge acquisition) process. The motivations considered were need for cognitive structure and fear of invalidity, and the epistemic phenomena studied were subjective confidence and hypothesis generation. In the...