Performance appraisal : the influence of vividness, information processing objective, and processing demand /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1992.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Abstract: | The vividness of information has been found to influence memory and many different types of judgments. The present study investigated the influence of vivid information on performance appraisal decisions. The processing demand placed on decision-makers was hypothesized to moderate vividness effects such that those with a large amount of information to attend to would be biased by the vividness of information while those presented with a much smaller amount of information would not. In addition, the processing objective of the decision-maker was hypothesized to determine the manner in which vivid information influenced memory and judgment. Two hundred and fifty-six undergraduate college students completed an in-basket task. Subjects in the high processing demand condition made global judgments in favor of the vivid information while those in the low processing demand condition did not. It was also discovered through structural modeling tests that processing objective determined how vivid information had its influence. Subjects asked to make memory-based judgments indeed did rely on the information in memory when making their decisions. Subjects instructed to make the relevant judgments immediately as they went through the in-basket, however, were directly influenced by the vividness of information rather than indirectly through memory. Now that vividness effects have been discovered in a performance appraisal situation, methods of eliminating the effect should be researched. |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: Psychology." |
| Physical Description: | vii, 155 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |