judgment
The Gnostic Argument by Phillip Medhurst
by: medhurst, 12 pagesIn 40 propositions Phillip Medhurst puts the case for a Gnostic account of the origins and meaning of our current situation. Also included is a Gnostic critique of the phenomenon of Jesus.
A CMPL Alternative Account of Practice Effects in Numerosity Judgment Tasks
by: shinta, 11 pagesA reanalysis of the numerosity judgment data described in T. J. Palmen ( 1997) showed that the mean latency exhibits clear deviations from the power function as predicted by the component ...
Texture Gradient Registration and the Development of Slant Perception
by: shinta, 21 pagesThe processes underlying the development of slant perception were investigated by manipulating the degree of texture element variability. Subjects at four grade levels were required to make
Susceptibility to anchoring effects: How openness-to-experience influences responses to anchoring cues
by: shinta, 6 pagesPrevious research on anchoring has shown this heuristic to be a very robust psychological phenomenon ubiquitous across many domains of human judgment and decision-making. Despite the prevalence ...
Relativistic financial decisions: Context effects on retirement saving an investment risk preferences
by: shinta, 20 pagesWe report a study of the effects the choice set on financial decision making related to retirement savings and risky investment. The participants were presented with either a full range of ...
Easy does it: The role of fluency in cue weighting
by: shinta, 9 pagesWe propose that people weight fluent, or easy to process, information more heavily than disfluent information when making judgments. Cue fluency was manipulated independent of objective cue ...
Intuitive decisions on the fringes of consciousness: Are they conscious and does it matter?
by: shinta, 14 pagesDecision making research often dichotomises between more deliberative, cognitive processes and more heuristic, intuitive and emotional processes. We argue that within this two-systems framework ...
On the perception and operationalization of risk perception
by: shinta, 8 pagesWe compare and critique two measures of risk perception. We suggest that a single question — “How risky is the situation?” — captures the concept of risk perception more ...
Debiasing context effects in strategic decisions: Playing against a consistent opponent can correct perceptual but not reinforcement biases
by: shinta, 13 pagesVlaev and Chater (2006) demonstrated that the cooperativeness of previously seen prisoner’s dilemma games biases choices and predictions in the current game. These effects were: a) ...
Criteria for performance evaluation
by: shinta, 11 pagesUsing a cognitive task (mental calculation) and a perceptual-motor task (stylized golf putting), we examined differential proficiency using the CWS index and several other quantitative measures ...
