TY - JOUR
T1 - Bending perception to desire
T2 - Effects of task demands, motivation, and cognitive resources
AU - Bélanger, Jocelyn J.
AU - Kruglanski, Arie W.
AU - Chen, Xiaoyan
AU - Orehek, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was supported in part by a grant from the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to the first author and an NSF Grant 0314291/0313483 to the second author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2014/11/7
Y1 - 2014/11/7
N2 - Determinants of motivated judgments were examined in this research. Three experiments investigated how dominant motivation, biasing difficulty and mental resources combine to produce motivationally congruent judgments. Studies 1 and 2 showed that where a biasing motivation is dominant the presence of resources can augment a motivational bias in judgment. Study 3 replicated that result and showed that resources contribute to the formation of biased judgments only where biasing is difficult to accomplish, but not where it is relatively easy to accomplish. In addition, Study 3 showed that where the accuracy motivation is dominant and biasing is the easy default, unbiased judgments will occur only in the presence (vs. absence) of resources. In contrast, where unbiased judgments are easy to come by, such judgments occur irrespective of resources.
AB - Determinants of motivated judgments were examined in this research. Three experiments investigated how dominant motivation, biasing difficulty and mental resources combine to produce motivationally congruent judgments. Studies 1 and 2 showed that where a biasing motivation is dominant the presence of resources can augment a motivational bias in judgment. Study 3 replicated that result and showed that resources contribute to the formation of biased judgments only where biasing is difficult to accomplish, but not where it is relatively easy to accomplish. In addition, Study 3 showed that where the accuracy motivation is dominant and biasing is the easy default, unbiased judgments will occur only in the presence (vs. absence) of resources. In contrast, where unbiased judgments are easy to come by, such judgments occur irrespective of resources.
KW - Cognitive energetics theory
KW - Cognitive resources
KW - Decision making
KW - Goals
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U2 - 10.1007/s11031-014-9436-z
DO - 10.1007/s11031-014-9436-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84916228277
SN - 0146-7239
VL - 38
SP - 802
EP - 814
JO - Motivation and Emotion
JF - Motivation and Emotion
IS - 6
ER -