کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
947786 1475866 2015 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The minority decision — A risky choice
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تصمیم اقلیت ؟؟ یک انتخاب خطرناک
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
چکیده انگلیسی


• Minority positions represent low consensus.
• They are associated with high gains if correct, but also with high losses if wrong.
• This renders the minority position a risky option.
• Taking a minority position was judged as more risky than taking a majority position.
• The effect generalized to social attitudes.

Objects are evaluated more extremely if they are rare. As minority positions represent low consensus (i.e., only few others agree), they are associated not only with high gains if correct, but also with high losses if wrong. This renders the minority position a risky option. Study 1 showed that participants judged making a minority decision as more risky than making a majority decision. Study 2 additionally showed that this effect was independent of potential monetary gains and losses. In Study 3, the effect generalized to social attitudes where a minority position was judged as more risky than a majority position. Implications are discussed with reference to literature on evaluative extremity, risk-taking, and minorities/majorities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology - Volume 57, March 2015, Pages 43–50
نویسندگان
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