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Ponte Academic Journal
Oct 2016, Volume 72, Issue 10

THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION SEQUENTIAL AND PERSONALITY ON THE INVESTOR BELIEF REVISION (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN DECISION MAKING)

Author(s): Abdul Hamid Habbe ,Henni Mande

J. Ponte - Oct 2016 - Volume 72 - Issue 10
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2016.10.13



Abstract:
This research examined that (1) there is a recency effect on investor belief revision from mix information that presented sequentially, (2) there is an anchoring effect on investor belief revision from mix information that presented sequentially, and (3) there is an interaction between the order of information and the tolerance of ambiguity personality in affecting of the revision belief of investors. Belief adjustment theory is employed as the main framework of this research. Experiment method 2x2 between subject used in this research and the subject that use is 75 students postgraduate Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) accounting majors. The hypothesis tested by using Independent Sample t-test, Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVA test. The results show that there are a recency effect and anchoring effect on investor belief revision from mix information that presented sequentially. Meanwhile, there is no interaction between sequence information and personality-ambiguity tolerance on investor belief revision.
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