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- Title
Self-Knowledge Reduces Conflict by Biasing One of Plural Possible Answers.
- Authors
Nakao, Takashi; Mitsumoto, Mayo; Nashiwa, Hitomi; Takamura, Masahiro; Tokunaga, Satoko; Miyatani, Makoto; Ohira, Hideki; Katayama, Kaori; Okamoto, Akane; Watanabe, Yu
- Abstract
The authors investigated whether self-knowledge has a function to reduce conflict by biasing one of two choices during occupational choice (e.g., Which occupation do you think you could do better?-dancer or chemist). In the three experiments, event-related brain potentials were recorded. Experiment 1 revealed that the amplitude of the conflict-related negativity (CRN) reflects strength of conflict during occupational choice. Results of Experiment 2 demonstrated that the CRN amplitude during occupational choice was smaller when self-knowledge was activated than when other-knowledge was activated. Experiment 3 showed that the CRN amplitude during occupational choice was decreased more when self-knowledge that biases one choice of occupation was activated than when self-knowledge that does not bias was activated. These results suggest that self-knowledge reduces conflict by biasing one of multiple choices in situations where two or more possible correct answers can be given.
- Subjects
THEORY of self-knowledge; VOCATIONAL guidance; CONFLICT (Psychology); NEGATIVITY (Philosophy); DECISION making; SOCIAL psychology; PROBLEM solving; DECISION theory; CAREER development
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2010, Vol 36, Issue 4, p455
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167210363403