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Context effects on probability estimation. [PDF]

PLoS Biol, 2020
Many decisions rely on how we evaluate potential outcomes and estimate their corresponding probabilities of occurrence. Outcome evaluation is subjective because it requires consulting internal preferences and is sensitive to context. In contrast, probability estimation requires extracting statistics from the environment and therefore imposes unique ...
Lin WH, Gardner JL, Wu SW.
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CONTEXT EFFECTS ON CHOICE [PDF]

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1998
Four pigeons responded on a concurrent‐chains schedule in four experiments that examined whether the effectiveness of a stimulus as a conditioned reinforcer is best described by a global approach, as measured by the average interreinforcement interval, or by a local contextual approach, as measured by the onset of the stimulus preceding the conditioned
J N, Goldshmidt, K M, Lattal, E, Fantino
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Context effects: Classroom tests and context independence [PDF]

Memory & Cognition, 1985
Contextual dependence has been hypothesized to influence classroom test performance such that taking a test away from the lecture room should lead to lower test scores (Abernethy, 1940). We studied the performances of students who took typical college tests in rooms different from the lecture rooms and made comparisons to classmates who remained in the
W H, Saufley, S R, Otaka, J L, Bavaresco
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Context Effects on Alcohol Cognitions [PDF]

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 2005
This article summarizes a symposium on context and alcohol-related cognitions presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The studies reported here examine how the manipulation of contextual variables influences the availability of alcohol outcome expectancies and implicit memories ...
Krank, Marvin, Wall, Anneâ€Marie, Stewart, Sherry H., Weirs, Reinout W., Goldman, Mark S   +4 more
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Context effects in similarity judgments. [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2022
Tversky's (1977) famous demonstration of a diagnosticity effect indicates that the similarity between the same two stimuli depends on the presence of contextual stimuli. In a forced choice task, the similarity between a target and a choice, appears to depend on the other choices.
Yearsley, J., Pothos, E. M., Barque-Duran, A., Trueblood, J., Hampton, J. A.   +4 more
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Context effects on second-language learning of tonal contrasts. [PDF]

, 2015
Studies of lexical tone  learning generally focus on monosyllabic contexts, while reports of phonetic learning benefits associated with input variability are based largely on experienced learners.
Bowles, Anita R., Chang, Charles B.
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Effects of classification context on categorization in natural categories [PDF]

, 2006
The patterns of classification of borderline instances of eight common taxonomic categories were examined under three different instructional conditions to test two predictions: first, that lack of a specified context contributes to vagueness in ...
C. E. Weatherburn, C. W. Kalish, D. L. Medin, D. Osherson, Danièle Dubois, E. E. Smith, E. M. Roth, E. Rosch, G. L. Murphy, G. L. Murphy, G. Rey, J. A. Hampton, J. A. Hampton, J. A. Hampton, James A. Hampton, L. J. Rips, L. W. Barsalou, M. E. McCloskey, N. Braisby, N. Braisby, N. Braisby, P. Bloom, R. A. Barr, R. Keefe, W.-K. Ahn, W.-K. Ahn, Wenchi Yeh, Z. Estes   +27 more
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Context reinstatement in recognition: memory and beyond [PDF]

, 2014
Context effects in recognition tests are twofold. First, presenting familiar contexts at a test leads to an attribution of context familiarity to a recognition probe, which has been dubbed ‘context-dependent recognition’.
Bancroft, Bodner, Bulevich, Busey, Clark, Dando, Dodson, Eich, Eich, Evans, Fisher, Geiselman, Godden, Gruppuso, Gruppuso, Hanczakowski, Hanczakowski, Higham, Higham, Higham, Hockley, Hockley, Hockley, Jaeger, Jou, Katarzyna Zawadzka, Kerr, Koriat, Koriat, Koriat, Laura Coote, Maciej Hanczakowski, Macken, Mickes, Milne, Mueller, Murnane, Murnane, Murnane, Murnane, Reder, Reinitz, Reinitz, Smith, Smith, Smith, Sporer, Tibon, Watkins, Winograd   +49 more
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Service quality in a post-crisis context: emotional effects and behaviours [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of service quality dimensions as determinants of the emotional and relational behaviours experienced by the client in bank branches in the post-crisis context experienced by Spanish ...
ESTRADA, MARTA, Idrovo Arguello, Manuel Alexander, MONFERRER TIRADO, DIEGO   +2 more
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Tolerance of Muslim beliefs and practices: Age related differences and context effects [PDF]

, 2007
Tolerant judgments of Muslims’ political rights and dissenting beliefs and practices by ethnic Dutch adolescents (12–18 years) were examined. Participants (N = 632) made judgments of different types of behaviors and different contexts in an experimental ...
Slooter, Luuk,, Verkuyten, Maykel,
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