Context Effects in the Judgment of Visual Relative-Frequency: Trial-by-Trial Adaptation and Non-linear Sequential Effect

Humans' judgment of relative-frequency, similar to their use of probability in decision-making, is often distorted as an inverted-S-shape curve—small relative-frequency overestimated and large relative-frequency underestimated. Here we investigated how the judgment of relative-frequency, despit...

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Main Authors: Xiangjuan Ren, Muzhi Wang, Hang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01691/full