I’m happy to announce that another peer-reviewed paper from a collaboration with my Italian colleagues Raffaella Misuraca and Floriana Antonella Carmeci just came out:
Misuraca, R., Teuscher, U., & Carmeci, F. A. (2015) Who are maximizers? Future oriented and highly numerate individuals. International Journal of Psychology. Available from ResearchGate.
The paper highlights some cognitive mechanisms that may underlie the maximizing decision style.
ABSTRACT: Two studies investigated cognitive mechanisms that may be associated with people’s tendency to maximize. Maximizers are individuals who are spending a great amount of effort in order to find the very best option in a decision situation, rather than stopping the decision process when they encounter a satisfying option. These studies show that maximizers are more future oriented than other people, which may motivate them to invest the extra energy into optimal choices. Maximizers also have higher numerical skills, possibly facilitating the cognitive processes involved with decision trade-offs.
© 2015 International Union of Psychological Science.
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