Kokkoris, Michail, Baumeister, Roy, Kühnen, Ulrich. 2019. Freeing or Freezing Decisions? Belief in Free Will and Indecisiveness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 154 49-61.
BibTeX
Abstract
Does belief in free will free or freeze decision-making? The existentialist hypothesis, rooted in views of free will as a source of anguish and hesitation, would predict that free will impedes decisions by increasing indecisiveness. In contrast, the evolutionary hypothesis, rooted in views of free will as a driver of effective social functioning, would predict that free will facilitates decisions by reducing indecisiveness. Results of five studies using various measures of indecisiveness (trait) and indecision (state), various operationalizations of free will beliefs (measured and manipulated), and various decision tasks provide support to the evolutionary hypothesis. Belief in free will is consistently associated with lower indecisiveness. However, one boundary condition of this effect is that it is limited to individuals with high self-concept clarity. These findings contribute to the literature on indecisiveness and advance our knowledge about the benefits of belief in free will for decision-making.
Tags
Press 'enter' for creating the tagPublication's profile
Status of publication | Published |
---|---|
Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes |
Citation Index | SSCI |
WU Journalrating 2009 | A |
WU-Journal-Rating new | FIN-A, MAN-A, STRAT-A, WH-A |
Language | English |
Title | Freeing or Freezing Decisions? Belief in Free Will and Indecisiveness |
Volume | 154 |
Year | 2019 |
Page from | 49 |
Page to | 61 |
Reviewed? | Y |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.08.002 |
Open Access | N |
Associations
- People
- Kokkoris, Michail (Former researcher)
- External
- Baumeister, Roy (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Kühnen, Ulrich (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)
- Organization
- Institute for Marketing and Consumer Research IN (Details)
- Competence Center for Experimental Research WE (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5320 Marketing (Details)
- 5504 Experimental psychology (Details)
- 5511 Social psychology (Details)