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dc.title | AGE AND CHOICE-INDUCED PREFERENCE CHANGE | |
dc.contributor.author | TEOW SUET FANG RACHEL | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-11T07:40:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-11T07:40:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | TEOW SUET FANG RACHEL (2018-04-12). AGE AND CHOICE-INDUCED PREFERENCE CHANGE. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/147166 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research on emotional regulation and regret in aging has provided reasons to expect that older adults may have a heightened sensitivity to dissonance effects, which could motivate a greater choice-induced preference change. Yet, no studies exist that has directly examined age differences in this preference change. To address this, a modified version of free choice paradigm was tested on both the young and old and included choice trials of two-options and seven-options to test age differences across different number of options. In the present study, participants first rated the preference of food items and then made a choice between food items that they have rated similarly, following which they rerated the food items. Results showed that overall older adults are consistently more susceptible to showing a greater degree of post-decisional preference change, regardless of the number of options. Our results suggest that choice-induced preference change could be a protective strategy that older adults engage in to help regulate emotions when making difficult decisions in older age. Policy makers should also be aware of such heightened choice-induced preference effect when designing choice structures for the elderly to guide better lifestyle choices. | |
dc.subject | age, choice-induced, preference change | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.department | PSYCHOLOGY | |
dc.contributor.supervisor | YU RONGJUN | |
dc.description.degree | Bachelor's | |
dc.description.degreeconferred | Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) | |
Appears in Collections: | Bachelor's Theses |
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