Das Streben nach Konsistenz im Entscheidungsprozess

were conducted. An important result was that with balanced in contrast to unbalanced
information patterns the simulation results don’t contribute significantly to the prediction of
the posttest validities when controlling for the influence of pretest validities. In two further
experiments the influence of repetition was again examined. While the mere repetition of an
identically designed decision task resulted in a predominant devaluation of cues, the receipt
of a further important information lead to a more systematic reevaluation of cues. In
summary, the assumption of bidirectional processing in decision making was supported.
However, neither the mostly weak evidence for systematic reevaluation nor their absence in
balanced information patterns was expected according to the pcs model. Against the
background of existing and of the results achieved in the presented studies it was argued that
some minimum conditions are necessary for the consistency maximizing process to be
successful.
Keywords:
Consistency
Information distortion
Decision making
Parallel constraint satisfaction