Methodology for investigating moderating relationships in cognitive biases within workplace decision-making
Benjamin Ohms · 2026
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Benjamin Ohms studies how workplace pressure changes the effect of thinking biases on decisions, in a 2026 paper. Biases such as overconfidence, following the crowd, and putting off choices are well known. Less clear is how stress at work alters their strength at each stage of a decision. Ohms surveyed three hundred fifty-seven employees in Singapore and tested interactions with regression methods built to handle uneven data.
Time pressure pushed people toward fast gut thinking, which strengthened overconfidence and crowd-following while they weighed information. Heavy task complexity raised mental load and made decision avoidance worse. The findings show that biases are not fixed traits; they swell or shrink with the situation. Managers who know this can design review steps that blunt the worst effects.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Benjamin Ohms |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |