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Optimism where there is none: Asymmetric belief updating observed with valence-neutral life events.
How people update their beliefs when faced with new information is integral to everyday life. A sizeable body of literature suggests that people's belief updating is optimistically biased, such that their beliefs are updated more in response to good news
Jason W. Burton +3 more
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When people are confronted with feedback that counters their prior beliefs, they preferentially rely on desirable rather than undesirable feedback in belief updating, i.e. an optimism bias.
Ziqing Yao, Xuanyi Lin, Xiaoqing Hu
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Reexamination on updating Choquet beliefs [PDF]
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Correcting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in 10 countries
What can be done to reduce misperceptions about COVID-19 vaccines? We present results from experiments conducted simultaneously on YouGov samples in 10 countries (N = 10 600), which reveal that factual corrections consistently reduce false beliefs about ...
Ethan Porter +2 more
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Environmental Governance as Stochastic Belief Updating: Crafting Rules to Live by
The idea that humans can "manage" nature is a modernist conceit. Natural systems and social (human) systems are always in the process of becoming. In this setting of unknowable dynamic emergence, it is not possible to design institutional arrangements ...
Daniel W. Bromley
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Belief updating: does the ‘good-news, bad-news’ asymmetry extend to purely financial domains?
Bayes’ statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Some recent research has questioned the use of Bayes’ rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting ...
K. Barron
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[Belief updating and mood congruence in depressive disorder].
Depressive disorder is characterized by a polymorphic symptomatology associating emotional, cognitive and behavioral disturbances. One of the most specific symptoms is negative beliefs, called congruent to mood. Despite the importance of these beliefs in
H. Bottemanne +3 more
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A Bayesian cognition approach for belief updating of correlation judgement through uncertainty visualizations [PDF]
Understanding correlation judgement is important to designing effective visualizations of bivariate data. Prior work on correlation perception has not considered how factors including prior beliefs and uncertainty representation impact such judgements ...
Alireza Karduni +3 more
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Updating beliefs with incomplete observations
Replaced with extended ...
Gert de Cooman, Marco Zaffalon
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Changing minds about climate change: a pervasive role for domain-general metacognition
Updating one’s beliefs about the causes and effects of climate change is crucial for altering attitudes and behaviours. Importantly, metacognitive abilities - insight into the (in)correctness of one’s beliefs- play a key role in the formation of ...
Sophie De Beukelaer +4 more
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