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You Cannot Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too: How Induced Goal Conflicts Affect Complex Problem Solving, Joachim Funke, Christine Blech
You Cannot Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too: How Induced Goal Conflicts Affect Complex Problem Solving, Joachim Funke, Christine Blech
Joachim Funke
Managing multiple and conflicting goals is a demand typical to both everyday life and complex coordination tasks. Two experiments (N = 111) investigated how goal conflicts affect motivation and cognition in a complex problemsolving paradigm. In Experiment 1, participants dealt with a game-like computer simulation involving a predefined goal relation: Parallel goals were independent, mutually facilitating, or interfering with one another. As expected, goal conflicts entailed lowered motivation and wellbeing. Participants' understanding of causal effects within the simulation was impaired, too. Behavioral measures of subjects' interventions support the idea of adaptive, self-regulatory processes: reduced action with growing awareness of the …