Counteracting threat bias: A longitudinal field experiment testing two interventions that expand managerial attention to opportunities under economic threat.
Materials, analysis code, and additional online material for a five-wave longitudinal field experiment with 414 managers during the COVID-19 economic downturn in India. The study tests two brief construal-shaping interventions (Opportunity; Balanced) designed to expand managerial attention to opportunities under sustained economic threat, with regulatory focus self-reported and opportunity- and threat-related voice rated by higher-level managers blind to condition. Participant-level data are available under controlled access; see the Data Access, Consent, and Confidentiality Note in Files.
Authors
- Nina Širola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8521-5216)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2026-11-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001436
- Primary Topic
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00