Mindless decision making and environmental issues: gestalt/feature-intensive processing and contextual reasoning in environmental decisions |
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Authors: | Sharps Matthew J Hess Adam B Ranes Bethany |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Psychology, MS-PH-11, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740-8039, USA. matthew_sharps@csufresno.edu |
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Abstract: | In the absence of relevant information in working memory during decision consideration, respondents tend to rely on a style of cognitive processing that may result in premature or inaccurate decision making (M. J. Sharps, 2003). M. J. Sharps and S. S. Martin (2002) demonstrated this effect in executive decision making. In the present study, the authors extended these methods to decisions about environmental issues. Respondents rated decisions about issues such as overpopulation, energy policy, and food production in the presence or absence of simple pertinent information. The presence of such information in the immediate context of environmental decisions, and therefore in working memory, significantly improved respondents' ability to understand negative decision consequences. These results demonstrate the importance of contextual information in environmental decision making. |
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