Browsing by Subject "Judgment"
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Action Simulations in Acquisition Cost Estimates
(2009)Consumers often lack objective information about product acquisition costs. In such cases, consumers must rely on estimates of acquisition costs in making their choices. The current work examines the influence of mental ... -
Age-related differences in resolving semantic and phonological competition during receptive language tasks.
(Neuropsychologia, 2016-12)Receptive language (e.g., reading) is largely preserved in the aging brain, and semantic processes in particular may continue to develop throughout the lifespan. We investigated the neural underpinnings of phonological and ... -
Age-related slowing in the retrieval of information from long-term memory.
(Journal of gerontology, 1985-03)The present experiment investigated adult age differences in the retrieval of information from long-term memory. Each trial required a decision regarding the synonymy of two visually presented words. On the yes-response ... -
Assessing intraoperative judgment using script concordance testing through the gynecology continuum of practice.
(Med Teach, 2014-08)OBJECTIVE: To measure surgical judgment across the Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) continuum of practice and identify factors that correlate with improved surgical judgment. METHODS: A 45-item written examination was developed ... -
Clinician judgment vs formal scales for predicting intracerebral hemorrhage outcomes.
(Neurology, 2016-01-12)OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of formal prognostic instruments vs subjective clinical judgment with regards to predicting functional outcome in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). METHODS: This ... -
Confidence and gradation in causal judgment.
(Cognition, 2022-06)When comparing the roles of the lightning strike and the dry climate in causing the forest fire, one might think that the lightning strike is more of a cause than the dry climate, or one might think that the lightning strike ... -
Counterfactual Plausibility and Comparative Similarity.
(Cognitive science, 2017-05)Counterfactual thinking involves imagining hypothetical alternatives to reality. Philosopher David Lewis (1973, 1979) argued that people estimate the subjective plausibility that a counterfactual event might have occurred ... -
Double Prevention, Causal Judgments, and Counterfactuals.
(Cognitive science, 2022-05)Mike accidentally knocked against a bottle. Seeing that the bottle was about to fall, Jack was just about to catch it when Peter accidentally knocked against him, making Jack unable to catch it. Jack did not grab the bottle, ... -
Gauging possibilities for action based on friction underfoot.
(J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 2007-10)Standing and walking generate information about friction underfoot. Five experiments examined whether walkers use such perceptual information for prospective control of locomotion. In particular, do walkers integrate information ... -
Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Judgment
(2014)Hannah Arendt's theory of political judgment has been an ongoing perplexity among scholars who have written on her. As a result, her theory of judgment is often treated as a suggestive but unfinished aspect of her thought. ... -
How actions create--not just reveal--preferences.
(Trends Cogn Sci, 2008-01)The neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by - and reflective of - hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create ... -
On measuring fuzziness: a comment on "A fuzzy set approach to modifiers and vagueness in natural language".
(Journal of experimental psychology. General, 1979-12)Hersh and Caramazza's application of fuzzy set theory to vagueness in natural language is criticized for including in their measures of fuzziness response variability due to experimental and statistical procedures. -
People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan.
(Psychon Bull Rev, 2006-10)Subjective age--the age people think of themselves asbeing--is measured in a representative Danish sample of 1,470 adults between 20 and 97 years of age through personal, in-home interviews. On the average, adults younger ... -
Telescoping is not time compression: a model of the dating of autobiographical events.
(Mem Cognit, 1989-11)A model of telescoping is proposed that assumes no systematic errors in dating. Rather, the overestimation of recent occurrences of events is based on the combination of three factors: (1) Retention is greater for recent ... -
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children
(PLoS ONE, 2014-03)Recent work has shown that young children can learn about preferences by observing the choices and emotional reactions of other people, but there is no unified account of how this learning occurs. We show that a rational ... -
The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the life span.
(Mem Cognit, 2009-07)In the present study, ratings of the memory of an important event from the previous week on the frequency of voluntary and involuntary retrieval, belief in its accuracy, visual imagery, auditory imagery, setting, emotional ... -
The reminiscence bump in the temporal distribution of the best football players of all time: Pelé, Cruijff or Maradona?
(Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 2012)The reminiscence bump is the tendency to recall more autobiographical memories from adolescence and early adulthood than from adjacent lifetime periods. In this online study, the robustness of the reminiscence bump was examined ... -
The temporal distribution of autobiographical memory: changes in reliving and vividness over the life span do not explain the reminiscence bump.
(Mem Cognit, 2011-01)When autobiographical memories are elicited with word cues, personal events from middle childhood to early adulthood are overrepresented compared to events from other periods. It is, however, unclear whether these memories ... -
Two Distinct Moral Mechanisms for Ascribing and Denying Intentionality.
(Sci Rep, 2015-12-04)Philosophers and legal scholars have long theorized about how intentionality serves as a critical input for morality and culpability, but the emerging field of experimental philosophy has revealed a puzzling asymmetry. People ... -
Understanding How Language, Design, and Processing Fluency Affect Cognition
(2018)Judgment and decision-making in a healthcare context often involve complex information and difficult tradeoffs. In order to understand key concepts and receive help with difficult decisions, patients may turn to written ...
