Abstract
30 male and 30 female subjects were exposed to 3 risk and 3 caution dilemmas in a group-shift experiment. Half the subjects, the Control condition, went through the standard paradigm. The other half, the Reinstatement condition, were allowed to see their original prediscussion responses before making their final postdiscussion responses. Group shifts occurred in both conditions and for both types of dilemmas. Individual prediscussion-postdiscussion shifts occurred on both types of dilemmas in the Control condition but only on caution dilemmas in the Reinstatement condition. The results are interpreted to mean that an individual's shift to risk is dependent on his being able to distort his memory of his initial response.
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