Feeling distressed from making decisions : assessors' need to be right

• Main Authors: Chen, Charlene Yijun, Rossignac-Milon, Maya, Higgins, Edward Tory
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Decision-making; Distress
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139330
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Our research posits that decision-making is particularly distressing for individuals with high assessment tendencies. Assessment involves truth concerns about making the "right" decision. We hypothesize that people with high assessment experience greater distress during decision-making bec...