The role of actively open-minded thinking in information acquisition, accuracy, and calibration

Errors in estimating and forecasting often result from the failure to collect and consider enough relevant information. We examine whether attributes associated with persistence in information acquisition can predict performance in an estimation task. We focus on actively open-minded thinking (AOT),...

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Main Authors: Uriel Haran, Ilana Ritov, Barbara A. Mellers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2013-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/13/13124a/jdm13124a.pdf