Title

Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Ability And Information Search In Tactical Decision-Making

Keywords

Decision-making; Emotional intelligence; Information search; Mood; Negative feedback; Situational judgment test; Stress

Abstract

Emotional intelligence (EI) may promote more effective decision-making under stress. In the present study, 167 participants completed a situation judgment test for EI, and performed a decision-making task based on an Antarctic rescue scenario. Participants were assigned to either a negative or neutral feedback group. Negative feedback significantly increased distress and impaired decision-making. EI failed to moderate the impacts of negative feedback, but higher EI was associated with greater information-search activity irrespective of feedback condition. It is concluded that ability EI may have a motivational component that may support more exhaustive analysis of both social and non-social stimuli. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Personality and Individual Differences

Volume

65

Number of Pages

24-29

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.029

Socpus ID

84901257902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84901257902

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