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Carol Furchner's List: cog-decisions
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Feb 05, 15
Added 2015. Consider this when discussing concussions and TBI
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Jan 11, 15
Describes quite a few studies on IAT, prejudice, creativity, interventions to (temporarily) reduce stereotyping and prejudiced responding.
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Nov 16, 14
"The controversial idea that information can be processed and evaluated unconsciously to change behavior has had a particularly impactful history. Here, we extend a simple model of conscious decision-making to explain both conscious and unconscious accumulation of decisional evidence. Using a novel dichoptic suppression paradigm to titrate conscious and unconscious evidence, we show that unconscious information can be accumulated over time and integrated with conscious elements presented either before or after to boost or diminish decision accuracy. The unconscious information could only be used when some conscious decision-relevant information was also present. These data are fit well by a simple diffusion model in which the rate and variability of evidence accumulation is reduced but not eliminated by the removal of conscious awareness. Surprisingly, the unconscious boost in accuracy was not accompanied by corresponding increases in confidence, suggesting that we have poor metacognition for unconscious decisional evidence."
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Mar 22, 14
Possibly a mechanism underlying the speed-accuracy trade-off: delaying a decision allows for gathering more information, switching attention from distractors to salient information.
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Aug 24, 13
Comparing risks of death from everyday activities: micromorts
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May 10, 13
"Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching for the cheapest electronics, fashion or food. Thus, markets reduce moral concerns. This is the main result of an experiment conducted by economists from the Universities of Bonn and Bamberg."
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Jan 31, 13
"the importance of being attentive to hazards that carry a low risk each time but are encountered frequently. "
We are frightened by the risks of very rare events, such as a plane crash, but not so much by low risk events in situations that we encounter frequently, such as slipping in the shower; cumulatively, we're more likely to be harmed by the latter. -
Dec 25, 12
very comprehensive list, good references, need links to references
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Sep 30, 12
Emotional responses to fear are faster than rational evaluation, and we can both over- and under-estimate the risk of a situation, leading to bad decisions either way.
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Sep 04, 12
Explore what you understand about risk and your willingness to take risks.
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Sep 02, 12
When operating under heavy cognitive load, we are more likely to "give in" to temptation, to taking the easy way out.
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Aug 25, 12
Researchers suggest that vmPFC (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) is less developed in children and degenerates in elderly - and they use this to try to explain increases in gullibility in these two age groups
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Aug 25, 12
Researchers found correlation between gullibility and degeneration in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in elderly people.
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Aug 07, 12
We hear far more about people who win lotteries than people who don't, so we assume that the odds of winning are much greater than they really are. This is true for many other events, as well. Information that is easy to recall, or obvious, or vivid, it affects our ability to judge the odds that something will happen.
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Jul 06, 12
Several ways in which consumers can be fooled into making buying and spending decisions that are not in their best interests.
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