Post-decision consolidation, as a function of the instructions to the decision maker and of the decision problem

Svenson, Ola; Rayo, Amparo Ortega; Andersen, Mikael Rørdam; Sandberg, Annika; Svahlin, Ingrid

doi:10.1016/0001-6918(94)90050-7

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“…Women might have first chosen HRT and subsequently developed risk perceptions that supported this decision. This type of cognitive restructuring by persons making decisions under value conflicts has been previously described by Svenson et al 20 The optimistic estimates of HRT users and the pessimistic estimates of HRT nonusers regarding the impact of HRT are consistent with this interpretation as well. For instance, HRT users might have increased their perception of risk of osteoporosis after their decision to use HRT and might have reduced or failed to increase their estimate of the risk of breast cancer.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Do Perceptions of Risk and Quality of Life Affect Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy by Postmenopausal Women?

Scheid¹,

Coleman²,

Hamm³

2003

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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Background: Although the understanding of the health impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is incomplete, even less is known about the attitudes, perceptions, and motivations of women faced with the decision to use HRT. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation between HRT use and women's perceptions of the risk and benefits associated with HRT use.Methods: A written questionnaire was administered to 387 women, aged 45 years and older, responding to a health plan invitation for free bone mineral density screening. Women were asked to estimate the lifetime probability of developing breast cancer, uterine cancer, osteoporosis, and myocardial infarction when taking HRT and when not taking HRT. Women rated their quality of life in their current state of health, with breast cancer, with uterine cancer, with osteoporosis, and after myocardial infarction.Results: HRT users perceived a greater risk reduction using HRT compared with HRT nonusers for osteoporosis (؊34.9% vs ؊17.8%, P < .001) and myocardial infarction (؊20.7% vs ؊8.4%, P < .001). HRT nonusers perceived a greater risk increase using HRT compared with HRT nonusers for breast cancer (16.5% vs 3.3%, P < .001) and uterine cancer (9.2% vs 0.6%, P ‫؍‬ .004). HRT users estimated a greater quality-of-life reduction compared with HRT nonusers for osteoporosis (؊31.0 vs ؊24.5, P ‫؍‬ .006).Conclusions: Regardless of whether they used HRT, women in this study overestimated their risk for all four diseases. HRT users perceived greater benefit and less risk using HRT than nonusers. The results of our study show that continuing efforts are needed to help women understand the risks and ben-

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Do Perceptions of Risk and Quality of Life Affect Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy by Postmenopausal Women?

Scheid¹,

Coleman²,

Hamm³

2003

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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“…Of particular importance for the present thesis, two aspects that affect consolidation are involvement and uncertainty. A prerequisite for post-decision consolidation to occur is that the decision is interesting or involving (Benthorn, 1994;Festinger, 1964;Svenson et al, 1994). Degree of involvement seems to be directly related to degree of consolidation (Svenson, et al, 1994;Festinger, 1964;Janis & Mann, 1977).…”

Section: Sources Of Post-decision Consolidationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A prerequisite for post-decision consolidation to occur is that the decision is interesting or involving (Benthorn, 1994;Festinger, 1964;Svenson et al, 1994). Degree of involvement seems to be directly related to degree of consolidation (Svenson, et al, 1994;Festinger, 1964;Janis & Mann, 1977). Involvement and importance of a decision can be influenced in different ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If the domain of the decision problem is not engaging, or if it is not important to the self, there is less need for restructuring. (Svenson & Malmsten, 1996;Svenson et al, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Again, this was based on social justice research, showing that in such cases, individuals are informed about self-relevance (Lind & Tyler, 1998;Tyler & Lind, 1992). We expected that such information may serve as a proxy for involvement in the issue, which decision research suggest increase consolidation (Benthorn, 1994;Festinger, 1964;Svenson et al, 1994). Thus, this last study aimed at integrating social identity theory, and social justice research with individual decision research.…”

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The present thesis consists of three studies concerning the effects of group membership in large group decision-making. The overall aim was to contribute to the understanding of how individuals react and behave when decisions are made in large groups. We explored different consequences of procedural justice concerns within members of large groups. In the first study we investigated how different decision-making procedures and perceived issue importance affect perceptions of others who agree and disagree with the individual on a potentially important issue. Results showed that individuals attribute more positive reasons for the attitude position of those who agree as opposed to disagree with themselves, whereas disagreers were attributed more negative reasons. This asymmetry was moderated by decisionmaking form, and issue importance. The attitudes concerned attitudes towards potential new policies. In the second study we investigated how participants differed in their perceptions of others as a consequence of their own position towards the new policy suggestions and the status quo. We found that challengers of the status quo advocating a change in the existing policy, tended to be more biased in their judgments of those defending the status quo than the other way around. This suggests that challengers are less tolerant of defenders" point of view. This effect was not affected by perceptions of minority status among the challengers. In the third study we looked at individual group members" cognitive restructuring of a preferred decision alternative, and how this differs between decision-making conditions, when the decision-maker is affiliated to own ingroup or not. Results showed that individuals restructure the attractiveness of their preferred alternative in group decision-making in a similar fashion as has been previously found in individual decision-making. The magnitude of such restructuring was greatest when ingroup members decided for the group. However, this effect was moderated by identification with the ingroup, such that those who identified themselves with the ingroup restructured their preferred alternative more when ingroup members decided as opposed to when outgroup authorities decided.

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Post-decision consolidation, as a function of the instructions to the decision maker and of the decision problem

Cited by 15 publications

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Do Perceptions of Risk and Quality of Life Affect Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy by Postmenopausal Women?

Do Perceptions of Risk and Quality of Life Affect Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy by Postmenopausal Women?

Social and cognitive biases in large group decision settings

Multi-attribute evaluation processes: Methodological and conceptual issues

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