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(Predictive strategies and the need to confirm them: some notes on pathological types of decision. 'Psychological Reports,' 15:99-105 (1964)). The study was designed to examine the effects on search of type of outcome (whether positive or negative), and to monitor the affective state of subjects in an attempt to clarify the basis for overtly noninstrumental search behavior. The study had three objectives: (a) to extend to the human level the analysis of the effects of uncertain and unavoidable outcomes on information search where, to date, only Pervin's paired comparison preference data are available; (b) to assess the differential effects of type of outcome (shock, monetary reward) on search; and in particular (c) to measure possible changes in the affective or arousal state of subjects in response to information. (Author)
Lanzetta et al. (Sat,) studied this question.