The Simple Life: New experimental tests of the recognition heuristic
The recognition heuristic (RH) is a hypothesized decision strategy that is assumed to enable individuals to make decisions quickly and with minimal effort. To further test this hypothesized strategy, an experiment assessed the proportion of RH-consistent selections when recognition was unconfounded...
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| description | The recognition
heuristic (RH) is a hypothesized decision strategy that is assumed to enable
individuals to make decisions quickly and with minimal effort. To further test
this hypothesized strategy, an experiment assessed the proportion of
RH-consistent selections when recognition was unconfounded with any other cues
(at the group level). This was accomplished by showing participants a
fictitious city in the beginning of the experimental procedure, before asking
them to decide Whether the previously presented city or a novel fictitious city
has the larger population. As hypothesized, people made significantly more
RH-consistent selections than chance. Thus, Experiment 1 demonstrated that RH
can explain a considerable proportion of participant decisions in a procedure
that experimentally excluded alternative interpretations of that behavior. In a
second experiment, each participant was given a training session with accuracy
feedback. In one group, well-known cities were larger on 80% of trials. In
another group, well-known cities were larger on 50% of trials. In a third
group, well-known cities were larger on only 20% of trials. On a judgment task
later in the procedure, on which there was no feedback, participants from the
third group made significantly fewer RH-consistent selections than those in the
first two groups. Overall, the present results experimentally remove potential
confounds and ambiguities that were present in many prior studies.
Specifically, Experiment 1 establishes that people's choice of recognized over
unrecognized objects truly does reflect the use of recognition, rather than
other cues; Experiment 2 experimentally demonstrates that learned recognition
validity affects the use of recognition, even with a small training sample. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ffd1f00a197b4831b2830ce01cfbaeb62023-09-02T18:46:33ZengCambridge University PressJudgment and Decision Making1930-29752016-05-01113301309The Simple Life: New experimental tests of the recognition heuristicZachariah BasehoreRichard B. AndersonThe recognition heuristic (RH) is a hypothesized decision strategy that is assumed to enable individuals to make decisions quickly and with minimal effort. To further test this hypothesized strategy, an experiment assessed the proportion of RH-consistent selections when recognition was unconfounded with any other cues (at the group level). This was accomplished by showing participants a fictitious city in the beginning of the experimental procedure, before asking them to decide Whether the previously presented city or a novel fictitious city has the larger population. As hypothesized, people made significantly more RH-consistent selections than chance. Thus, Experiment 1 demonstrated that RH can explain a considerable proportion of participant decisions in a procedure that experimentally excluded alternative interpretations of that behavior. In a second experiment, each participant was given a training session with accuracy feedback. In one group, well-known cities were larger on 80% of trials. In another group, well-known cities were larger on 50% of trials. In a third group, well-known cities were larger on only 20% of trials. On a judgment task later in the procedure, on which there was no feedback, participants from the third group made significantly fewer RH-consistent selections than those in the first two groups. Overall, the present results experimentally remove potential confounds and ambiguities that were present in many prior studies. Specifically, Experiment 1 establishes that people's choice of recognized over unrecognized objects truly does reflect the use of recognition, rather than other cues; Experiment 2 experimentally demonstrates that learned recognition validity affects the use of recognition, even with a small training sample.http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16202a/jdm16202a.pdfThe Simple Life recognition heuristic decision making experimental tests.NAKeywords |
| spellingShingle | Zachariah Basehore Richard B. Anderson The Simple Life: New experimental tests of the recognition heuristic Judgment and Decision Making The Simple Life recognition heuristic decision making experimental tests.NAKeywords |
| title | The Simple Life: New
experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| title_full | The Simple Life: New
experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| title_fullStr | The Simple Life: New
experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Simple Life: New
experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| title_short | The Simple Life: New
experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| title_sort | simple life new experimental tests of the recognition heuristic |
| topic | The Simple Life recognition heuristic decision making experimental tests.NAKeywords |
| url | http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16202a/jdm16202a.pdf |
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