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ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to explore whether emotional dominance can also account for choice deferral. This research manipulated emotional dominance through the difference in attractiveness among current alternatives in Experiment 1 and the readability of fonts for describing current options in Experiment 2, to investigate the role of dominance in choice deferral. The results revealed that increasingly submissive decision environments were related to more choice of deferral options. Mediation analyses indicated that dominance could mediate the effects of experimental manipulations on choice deferral, and that the actual choice of a deferral option was associated with more increase in dominance of retrospective emotion. The results indicate that dominance plays an important role in choice deferral and that choosing to defer can minimize the explicit confrontation of being out of control.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the comments and suggestions provided by the anonymous JSP reviewers.
Funding
This work was supported by the Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund of Hunan Province (13YBA220) and the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council (201606725003) awarded to the first author.
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Xiaoming Li
Xiaoming Li is an Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology at Hunan Normal University. Her current interests include decision avoidance and the effect of power on decision making. Qiuling Ye received her MS from the Department of Psychology at Hunan Normal University. Her current interest is the effect of power on inter-temporal decision-making. Guoqing Yang received his MS from the Department of Psychology at Hunan Normal University. Now he has joined work on statistics.