“…During this phase of the study, participants were asked to complete a battery of psychometric covariate measures including a background information sheet, the Need for Cognition Scale (NCS; Cacioppo & Petty, 1982), a Cognitive Flexibility Scale (Martin & Rubin, 1995), and the Verbal Reasoning scale fi-om the Employee Aptitude Survey (Ruch & Ruch, 1980). These measures, which are presented in Appendix A, were used to examine the possibility that individual differences, such as cognitive processing needs or verbal ability, account for significant differences in decisions made by individuals in similar organizational and situational settings.…”