The effects of accountability on information search, evaluation and integration in multiattribute decision making [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Stefanie Schmeer
THE EFFECTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY ON INFORMATION SEARCH, EVALUATION AND INTEGRATION IN MULTIATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING genehmigte Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) der Technischen Universität Darmstadt Fachbereich 03: Humanwissenschaften vorgelegt von Dipl.-Psych. Stefanie Schmeer, geboren in Darmstadt eingereicht am 10.09.01 mündliche Prüfung am 11.04.02 Referenten: Prof. Dr. Katrin Borcherding Prof. Dr. Bruno Rüttinger D17 Darmstadt, im Dezember 2002 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Katrin Borcherding, for her absolutely invaluable practical and moral support, which she has continued to provide even after I left the Technical University of Darmstadt, and which has gone far beyond any call of duty. I am also very grateful to all student research assistants who helped me with the onerous tasks of data collection and entry; for their help with a pilot experiment, Petra Schreiber, Andreas Schubert and Jürgen Junker, for their help with the first experiment, Heike Kollross and Claudia Toll, and for their help with the second experiment, Meike Pflanz, Tobias Ley and Tanja Merle. I am particularly indebted to Claudia Toll, who created the Word macros that made the nightmare of creating individually randomised questionnaires bearable.