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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no8.747

Consumers' Abductive Inference Error as Cognitive Impairment  

HAN, Woong-Hee (Department of Business Administration, Myongji University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.8, 2020 , pp. 747-752 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examines cognitive impairment, which is one of the results from social exclusion and leads to logical reasoning disorders. This study also investigate how cognitive errors called abductive inference error occur due to cognitive impairment. Present study was performed with 81 college students. Participants were randomly assigned to the group who has experienced social exclusion or to the group who has not experience the social exclusion. We analyzed how the degree of error of abductive inference differs according to the social exclusion experience. The group who has experienced social exclusion showed a higher level of abductive inference error than the group who has not experience. The abductive condition inference value of the group who has experienced social exclusion was higher in the group with the deduction condition inference value of 90% than in the group with the deduction condition inference value of 10%, and the difference was also significant. This study extended the concepts of cognitive impairments, escape theory, cognitive narrowing which are used to explain addiction behavior to human cognitive bias. Also this study confirmed that social exclusion experience increased cognitive impairment and abductive inference error. Future research directions and implications were discussed and suggested.
Keywords
Abductive Inference; Cognitive Impairments; Social Exclusion;
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