Positive consequences of conflict on decision making: when a conflict mindset facilitates choice.

BRIEF REPORT Positive Consequences of Conflict on Decision Making: When a Conflict Mindset Facilitates Choice

Much research has shown that conflict is aversive and leads to increased choice deferral. In contrast, we have proposed that conflict can be beneficial. Specifically, exposure to nonconscious goal conflict can activate a mindset (a set of cognitive procedures) that facilitates the systematic processing of information without triggering the associated costs, such as negative affect and stress. I...

Under Second Round Review at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICT ON DECISION MAKING: WHEN A CONFLICT MINDSET FACILITATES CHOICE

Pedestrian Gap Acceptance Logit Model in Unsignalized Crosswalks Conflict Zone

Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users. For evaluating and modifying pedestrian safety in unsignalized crosswalks,the first important issue is to identify and explore factors affecting the interaction behavior of pedestrians andvehicles in conflict areas. By analyzing those factors and determining how they affect road user's behavior, we canrepresent the plans and proc...

Decision making under conflict: Decision time as a measure of conflict strength

Everyday experience suggests that decision making is often accompanied by conflict. For example, both farreaching decisions—for instance, whether to have chemotherapy or surgery as a treatment for cancer—and trifling decisions, of whether to go to a concert or an opera, can generate conflict. A conflict is resolved by making a choice between alternatives. Kurt Lewin was among the first to bring...

CHOICE UNDER CONFLICT: The Dynamics of Deferred Decision

Choice often produces conflict. This notion, however, plays no role in classical decision theory, in which each alternative is assigned a value, and the decision maker selects from every choice set the option with the highest value. We contrast this principle of value maximization with the hypothesis that the option to delay choice or seek new alternatives is more likely to be selected when con...