Journal article
Cognitive conflict and goal conflict effects on task performance
Organizational behavior and human performance, Vol.19(2), pp.378-391
01/01/1977
DOI: 10.1016/0030-5073(77)90071-X
Abstract
Decision-making (prediction) behavior under two types of conflict was experimentally examined within the Social Judgment Theory research paradigm. Interpersonal cognitive conflict (the degree of disagreement over the interpretation of a common stimulus), goal conflict (the degree of competition for payoffs), and trial blocks were independent variables. Prediction error was the dependent measure. Individuals made better predictions about task-criterion values under no-goal conflict than under goal conflict conditions. During the initial stage of a series of prediction trials, subjects made better predictions of task-criterion values under high cognitive conflict than under low cognitive conflict conditions. All groups of subjects were able to improve prediction performance significantly over time. These results are generally consistent with arguments stressing the potential benefits of minimal goal conflict over payoffs and high cognitive conflict on decision quality.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cognitive conflict and goal conflict effects on task performance
- Creators
- Richard A. Cosier - Indiana UniversityGerald L. Rose - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Organizational behavior and human performance, Vol.19(2), pp.378-391
- DOI
- 10.1016/0030-5073(77)90071-X
- ISSN
- 0030-5073
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Number of pages
- 14
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/1977
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984963107702771
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