Epistemic motivation facilitates advice seeking and utilization by groups

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Abstract

Drawing on a motivated information processing model, we tested the hypothesis that groups' receptivity to outside advice is facilitated by their epistemic motivation—the desire to gain an accurate understanding of the world. Epistemic motivation was measured by proxy in Study 1 using a team task reflexivity measure, and was experimentally manipulated in Studies 2 and 3 by varying, respectively, either the amount of time allotted to complete the task or whether a consensus judgment was required before receiving advice. Receptivity to advice was operationalized as group advice seeking in Studies 1 and 2, and as advice utilization in Study 3. In support of our hypothesis, groups with higher levels of epistemic motivation consistently sought out and utilized advice more than those with lower levels of epistemic motivation. Moreover, epistemic motivation affected judgment accuracy via groups' receptivity to advice.

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Yoon, Y. J., Larson, J. R., Tindale, R. S., & Ro, H. K. (2023). Epistemic motivation facilitates advice seeking and utilization by groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(6), 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12958

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