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

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...