Mad enough to see the other side: Anger and the search for disconfirming information

Mad enough to see the other side: Anger and the search for disconfirming information

The current research explored the effect of anger on hypothesis confirmation the propensity to seek information that confirms rather than disconfirms one's opinion. We argued that the moving against action tendency associated with anger leads angry individuals to seek out more disconfirming inf...

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Main Authors: YOUNG, Maia J., TIEDENS, Larissa Z., JUNG, Heajung, TSAI, Ming-Hong
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
Subjects:
Anger
Action tendency
Selective information
Confirmation bias
Argumentative
Cognition and Perception
Psychology
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2018
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3275/viewcontent/Mad_enough_to_see_the_other_side__Anger_and_the_search_for_disconfirming_information.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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