When Cognitive Proximity Leads to Higher Evaluation Decision Quality: A Study of Public Funding Allocation

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Abstract

Project expert evaluation is the backbone of public funding allocation. A slight change in score can push a proposal below or above a funding line. Academic researchers have discovered many factors that may affect evaluation decision quality, yet the subject of cognitive proximity towards decision quality has not been considered thoroughly. Using 923 observations of the 2017 Beijing Innofund data, the study finds that cognitive proximity has an inverted “U-shape” relation to decision-making quality. Moreover, two contextual factors, evaluation experience and evaluation efforts, exert moderation effects on the inverted U shape. These findings fill the gaps in the current research on cognition-based perspective by specifying the mechanism of cognitive proximity in the evaluation field and contributing to improving decision-making quality by selecting appropriate evaluators. Theoretical contributions and policy implications have been discussed.

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Zhang, C., Zhang, Z., Yang, D., Ashourizadeh, S., & Li, L. (2021). When Cognitive Proximity Leads to Higher Evaluation Decision Quality: A Study of Public Funding Allocation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.697989

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