Do You Want to Convince Me or to Be Understood?: Preference-Consistent Information Sharing and Its Motivational Determinants

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1684-1696

  Faulmüller, Nadira ^a   Mojzisch, Andreas ^b   Kerschreiter, Rudolf ^c   Schulz Hardt, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

communication bias; felt understanding; group decision making; information sharing; preference consistency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WRITING;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870214249     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212458707     Document Type: Article

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