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Abstract
Choice blindness is a cognitive phenomenon describing that when people receive false feedback about a choice they just made, they often accept the outcome as their own. Little is known about what predisposes people to correct manipulations they are subjected to in choice blindness studies. In this study, 118 participants answered a political attitude survey and were then asked to explain some of their responses out of which three had been manipulated to indicate an opposite position. Just over half (58.4%) of the
manipulations were corrected. We measured extremity, centrality and commitment for each attitude, and one week prior to the experiment we assessed participants’ preference for consistency, need for cognition and political awareness. Only extremity was able to predict correction. The results highlight the elusiveness of choice blindness and speak against dissonance and lack of motivation to engage in cognitively demanding tasks as explanations why the effect occurs.
manipulations were corrected. We measured extremity, centrality and commitment for each attitude, and one week prior to the experiment we assessed participants’ preference for consistency, need for cognition and political awareness. Only extremity was able to predict correction. The results highlight the elusiveness of choice blindness and speak against dissonance and lack of motivation to engage in cognitively demanding tasks as explanations why the effect occurs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Place of Publication | Montreal |
| Publisher | Cognitive Science Society, Inc |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 Jul 8 |
| Event | CogSci 2019: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Duration: 2019 Jul 24 → 2019 Jul 27 Conference number: 41 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2019/ |
Conference
| Conference | CogSci 2019 |
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| Abbreviated title | COGSCI 19 |
| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Montreal |
| Period | 2019/07/24 → 2019/07/27 |
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Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Psychology
Free keywords
- choice blindness
- attitude change
- attitude strength
- need for cognition
- preference for consistency
- political awareness
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The malleability of political attitudes: Choice blindness, confabulation and attitude change
Strandberg, T., 2020 May 18, Lund, Sweden: Department of Philosophy, Lund University. 188 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
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