The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.

Existing research shows that evaluations of the risks and benefits of various hazards (i.e., technologies and activities) are inversely related. The affect heuristic explains the negative relation between risks and benefits, as based on the strength of positive or negative affect associated with a h...

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Autores principales:	Patrycja Sleboda, Carl Johan Lagerkvist
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b4ec03dd0aee41d6a50ba930c5ffa2a42021-12-02T20:18:31ZThe inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0255569https://doaj.org/article/b4ec03dd0aee41d6a50ba930c5ffa2a42021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255569https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Existing research shows that evaluations of the risks and benefits of various hazards (i.e., technologies and activities) are inversely related. The affect heuristic explains the negative relation between risks and benefits, as based on the strength of positive or negative affect associated with a hazard. Research on the affect heuristic previously investigated under which conditions people judge risk and benefits independently, focusing on expertise as a factor that might exempt from inversely related judgements of risk and benefits. Measurements within Dual Process Theories have been found to be associated with rational, analytical decision making and accurate judgments. In this paper we investigated the extent to which rational information processing styles can predict the risk-benefit relation of technologies in a medical and food applications and whether the attitudes influence the strength or direction of the relationship. Using the Need for Cognition Scale (NFC), a psychometric-based risk scale and an explicit measure of attitude, in a representative sample of 3228 Swedes, we found that the high NFC group judged the risks and benefits of technologies to be inversely related. In contrast, the low NFC group judged the risks and benefits to be positively related. These results were confirmed across all studied technologies by applying moderation analysis. We discuss the results in light of recent research on cognitive processing and polarization over technologies' risks.Patrycja SlebodaCarl Johan LagerkvistPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0255569 (2021)
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description	Existing research shows that evaluations of the risks and benefits of various hazards (i.e., technologies and activities) are inversely related. The affect heuristic explains the negative relation between risks and benefits, as based on the strength of positive or negative affect associated with a hazard. Research on the affect heuristic previously investigated under which conditions people judge risk and benefits independently, focusing on expertise as a factor that might exempt from inversely related judgements of risk and benefits. Measurements within Dual Process Theories have been found to be associated with rational, analytical decision making and accurate judgments. In this paper we investigated the extent to which rational information processing styles can predict the risk-benefit relation of technologies in a medical and food applications and whether the attitudes influence the strength or direction of the relationship. Using the Need for Cognition Scale (NFC), a psychometric-based risk scale and an explicit measure of attitude, in a representative sample of 3228 Swedes, we found that the high NFC group judged the risks and benefits of technologies to be inversely related. In contrast, the low NFC group judged the risks and benefits to be positively related. These results were confirmed across all studied technologies by applying moderation analysis. We discuss the results in light of recent research on cognitive processing and polarization over technologies' risks.
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title	The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.
title_short	The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.
title_full	The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.
title_fullStr	The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.
title_full_unstemmed	The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.
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The inverse relation between risks and benefits: The impact of individual differences in information processing style.

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