Humility revisited: Self-esteem, information search, and policy consistency

Abstract

A computer simulation of a managerial task was used to study the relationship between self-esteem and the information search and policy consistency of subjects. As predicted, there were significant negative relationships between self-esteem and both experimenting (number of policy changes), and information search (requests for performance feedback and other information). The implications of these results for the practice of experimenting decision making are discussed.