[EVENT] Ambivalence Talks at 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German Social Psychology Conference)

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For those attending the 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German Social Psychology Conference), I am giving the following talk there:

The Benefit of the Doubter: Trait Ambivalence is Negatively Related to Cognitive Bias  on 16.09.2019, 14:00 - 15:30

If you know of other talks on ambivalence at this conference, please reply to this post!

More information abou the FGSP here: https://fgsp2019.uni-koeln.de/

[Jana Hohnsbehn]

Hi everyone,

I'm also going to give a Blitztalk on ambivalence and bias at the 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie  on 16.09.2019, 16:30 - 17:00.  Please find below the title and the abstract.

Jana

Torn but balanced: ambivalence is related to less confirmation bias.

Traditionally, ambivalence has been conceptualized as a negative influence on decision-making, leading to procrastination, decision-delay, and negative affect. Challenging this notion, recent theorizing suggests that ambivalence can be beneficial because it promotes more balance in the decision-making process. Specifically, since ambivalence is a state where contrasting sides of an attitude object (e.g. both positive and negative evaluations) are salient, it likely leads to the consideration of more diverse information and reduces one-sided thought. We investigated this novel idea in the domain of one of the most pervasive biases in decision-making: confirmation bias. Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to prefer information that is in accord with one’s preexisting beliefs. That is, people tend to process information one-sidedly in line with their preconceptions, often resulting in less optimal choices. We examined the relationship between ambivalence and confirmation bias in an online study (N = 150) in which people performed different decision-making tasks. Results demonstrated that the more ambivalent people were, the less confirmation bias they showed. This provides first-time evidence that decision-making can benefit from ambivalence and lays the groundwork for more systematic future testing of the upsides of ambivalence.

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[Naomi Rothman]

Hi Everyone,

Cool work!

A few things:

1. Jana's paper reminds our research from 2013. I am happy to hear these findings are being replicated and extended! I have attached the paper to this email.

• Rees, L., Rothman, N.B., Lehavy, R., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2013). The Ambivalent Mind Can Be a Wise Mind: Emotional Ambivalence Increases Judgment Accuracy, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 360-367.
  

2. I have a few presentations on the benefits of emotional ambivalence coming up:

• APS, Washington DC (Saturday 5/25 10:00-11:20) "Benefiting from Ambivalence: How Emotional Ambivalence can Improve our Decisions, Relationships, and Negotiation Outcomes"
  
• INSEAD, France, Organizational Behavior Group Seminar Series (Wednesday 5/29 9:30-11:00) "Benefiting from Ambivalence: How Emotional Ambivalence can Improve our Decisions, Relationships, and Negotiation Outcomes"
• Behavioral Science and Policy Association, New York, NY: "Internal Conflict and Prejudice Regulation: Emotional Ambivalence Buffers Against Defensive Responding" 
• Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, MA: "Is Emotional Ambivalence a Malleable Moral Compass?"
  

It is exciting to see such energy around this topic!

Naomi

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Naomi B. Rothman

Associate Professor of Management
Charlotte and Robert L. Brown III '78 Research Fellow

Director, Management Program

Lehigh University

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