Balancing out feelings of risk by playing it safe: The effect of social networking on subsequent risk judgment

Hakkyun Kim, Kyoungmi Lee and Kiwan Park

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2015, vol. 131, issue C, 121-131

Abstract: Will individuals’ social networking influence their judgments and related psychological processes on tasks in remote, unrelated domains? This research examines downstream spillover effects that social networking experiences may have on individuals’ risk-related judgment and behavior. Building on the feelings-as-information paradigm, we propose that individuals who engage in initiating new ties or contacts will subsequently behave in a more risk-averse manner than those who engage in cementing existing relationships. Initiating new ties generates more intense feelings that individuals have taken a risk, compared to cementing existing ties. Consequently, initiating new ties produces the tendency to balance out feelings of risk across unrelated domains. In four studies, we confirm the effect of social networking on subsequent risk judgment and the role of feelings of risk as its underlying process.

Keywords: Social networking; Facebooking; Feelings as information; Risk-taking; Metacognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597815000977
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jobhdp:v:131:y:2015:i:c:p:121-131

DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2015.09.002

Access Statistics for this article

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes is currently edited by John M. Schaubroeck

More articles in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().