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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES
Volume 130, Issue -, Pages 136-146Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2015.05.002
Keywords
Outcome bias; Event; Agency; Choice; Construal
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- ACRF - Singapore Ministry of Education [R-317-000-112-112]
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People view the same decision as better when it is followed by a positive outcome than by a negative outcome, a phenomenon called the outcome bias. Based on the idea that a key cause of the outcome bias is people's failure to appreciate that outcomes are in part determined by external forces, three studies tested a novel method to reduce the outcome bias. Experiment 1 showed that people who construed a person's interactions with the environment as events rather than as actions or choices were less susceptible to the outcome bias in a medical decision making task. Experiments 2 and 3 demonstrated that people who recalled past events rather than actions or choices exhibited lower outcome bias in a risky decision making task and in an ethical judgment task. These findings indicate that an event construal helps people appreciate the role of external factors in causing outcomes. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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