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- Title
Cardiovascular reactivity and resistance to opposing viewpoints during intragroup conflict.
- Authors
Wit, Frank R. C.; Scheepers, Daan; Jehn, Karen A.
- Abstract
This study examined how the outcomes of joint decision making relate to cardiovascular reactions when group members disagree about the decision to be taken. A conflict was experimentally induced during a joint decision-making task, while cardiovascular markers of challenge/threat motivational states were assessed following the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat ( BPSM; J. Blascovich, ). Results show that individuals were less likely to adjust their initially preferred decision alternative the more they exhibited a cardiovascular pattern indicative of threat (i.e., relatively high total peripheral resistance and low cardiac output) compared to challenge. This finding extends the BPSM by showing a link between threat and rigidity, and emphasizes the importance of psychophysiological processes for studying intragroup conflict and decision making.
- Subjects
CARDIOVASCULAR system; HEALTH outcome assessment; CARDIAC output; DECISION making; BIOMARKERS; ANXIETY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Psychophysiology, 2012, Vol 49, Issue 11, p1691
- ISSN
0048-5772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01456.x