Framing cognitive offloading in terms of gains or losses: achieving a more optimal use of reminders

Abstract Nowadays individuals can readily set reminders to offload intentions onto external resources, such as smartphone alerts, rather than using internal memory. Individuals tend to be biased, setting more reminders than would be optimal. We address the question whether the reminder bias depends...

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Main Authors: Lea Fröscher, Ann-Kathrin Friedrich, Max Berentelg, Curtis Widmer, Sam J. Gilbert, Frank Papenmeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-07-01
Series:Cognitive Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00416-3