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http://dx.doi.org/10.14695/KJSOS.2014.17.3.39

The Effect of Good and Bad Luck on Reasoning  

Lee, Byung-Kwan (Department of Industrial Psychology, Kwangwoon University)
Lee, Guk-Hee (Department of Industrial Psychology, Kwangwoon University)
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Science of Emotion and Sensibility / v.17, no.3, 2014 , pp. 39-48 More about this Journal
Abstract
Good and bad luck is an important factor that frequently affects human information processing. However, in spite of its significance, few studies have been done to examine how good and bad luck influences information processing and reasoning. The current research was performed to explore the effect of good and bad luck on reasoning and, for this, two experiments were conducted. In experiment 1, participants were primed with good or bad luck and were asked to make an inference for a given murder case and include as many as clues for it, while in experiment 2, participants were asked to exclude as many as clues for the same murder case. Results show that, in experiment 1, participants who were primed with good luck included more clues than those who were primed with bad luck. However, in Experiment 2, it was found that participants who were primed with bad luck excluded more clues than those who were primed with good luck. Findings from this study indicate that priming good luck enhances holistic thinking which leads to including more and excluding less clues whereas priming bad luck increases analytic thinking which leads to including less and excluding more clues. Implications of this study for inference and decision making, consumer behavior, and addict psychology are discussed.
Keywords
good luck; bad luck; holistic reasoning; analytic reasoning; causal reasoning;
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