?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=You+Cannot+Have+Your+Cake+and+Eat+It%2C+too%3A+How+Induced+Goal+Conflicts+Affect+Complex+Problem+Solving&rft.creator=Blech%2C+Christine&rft.creator=Funke%2C+Joachim&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Managing+multiple+and+conflicting+goals+is+a+demand+typical+to+both+everyday+life+and+complex+coordination+tasks.+Two+experiments+(N+%3D+111)+investigated+how+goal+conflicts+affect+motivation+and+cognition+in+a+complex+problem-+solving+paradigm.+In+Experiment+1%2C+participants+dealt+with+a+game-like+computer+simulation+involving+a+predefined+goal+relation%3A+Parallel+goals+were+independent%2C+mutually+facilitating%2C+or+interfering+with+one+another.+As+expected%2C+goal+conflicts+entailed+lowered+motivation+and+wellbeing.+Participants%E2%80%99+understanding+of+causal+effects+within+the+simulation+was+im-+paired%2C+too.+Behavioral+measures+of+subjects%E2%80%99+interventions+support+the+idea+of+adaptive%2C+self-regulatory+processes%3A+reduced+action+with+growing+awareness+of+the+goal+conflict+and+balanced+goal+pursuit.+Experiment+2+endorses+the+hypotheses+of+motivation+loss+and+reduced+acquisition+of+system-related+knowledge+in+an+extended+problem-solving+paradigm+of+four+conflicting+goals.+Impairing+effects+of+goal+interference+on+motivation+and+wellbeing+were+found%2C+although+less+distinct+and+robust+as+in+Experiment+1.+Participants+undertook+fewer+interventions+in+case+of+a+goal+conflict+and+acquired+less+knowledge+about+the+system.+Formal+complexity+due+to+the+interconnectedness+among+goals+is+discussed+as+a+limiting+influence+on+inferring+the+problem+structure.&rft.publisher=Bentham+Open&rft.date=2010&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6867%2F1%2FBlech%2526Funke_2010_Polytely.pdf&rft.identifier=++Blech%2C+Christine+and+Funke%2C+Joachim++(2010)+You+Cannot+Have+Your+Cake+and+Eat+It%2C+too%3A+How+Induced+Goal+Conflicts+Affect+Complex+Problem+Solving.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6867%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>