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Direct linkEmily N. Line; Sara Jaramillo; Micah Goldwater; Zachary Horne – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
People are inundated with popular press reports about medical research concerning what is healthy, get advice from doctors, and hear personal anecdotes. How do people integrate conflicting anecdotal and statistical information when making medical decisions? In four experiments (N = 4126), we tested how people use conflicting information to judge…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Personal Narratives, Decision Making, Data Use
Pálfi, Bence; Arora, Kavleen; Kostopoulou, Olga – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Evidence-based algorithms can improve both lay and professional judgements and decisions, yet they remain underutilised. Research on advice taking established that humans tend to discount advice--especially when it contradicts their own judgement ("egocentric advice discounting")--but this can be mitigated by knowledge about the…
Descriptors: Physicians, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Self Concept
Wilson, Cristina G.; Qian, Feifei; Jerolmack, Douglas J.; Roberts, Sonia; Ham, Jonathan; Koditschek, Daniel; Shipley, Thomas F. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
How do scientists generate and weight candidate queries for hypothesis testing, and how does learning from observations or experimental data impact query selection? Field sciences offer a compelling context to ask these questions because query selection and adaptation involves consideration of the spatiotemporal arrangement of data, and therefore…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Data Collection, Information Seeking, Decision Making
