Effects of Psychological Type and Information Presentation on Decision Making.

摘要

This research investigated the relationship between the user's psychological type and mode of information presentation. One hundred twenty-seven Department of Defense managers served as subjects. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was utilized to identify the psychological type of the users while the Information Presentation Mode Survey determined accuracy, efficiency, and preference for seven modes of presenting information or decision making. Psychological types were found to vary in their accuracy of decision making. Specifically, Introverts were more accurate than Extraverts, Sensing types were more accurate that Intuitive types, Thinking types were more accurate than Feeling types, and Perceptive types were more accurate than Judgment types. SFs were more accurate than STs, and NTs; NFs were least accurate. MBII(Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator), Psychological type, Cognitive style information. (eg)