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Context effects on probability estimation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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.
europepmc   +6 more sources

CONTEXT EFFECTS ON CHOICE [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Gender Ambiguity in Voice-Based Assistants: Gender Perception and Influences of Context

open access: yesHuman-Machine Communication Journal, 2022
Recently emerging synthetic acoustically gender-ambiguous voices could contribute to dissolving the still prevailing genderism. Yet, are we indeed perceiving these voices as “unassignable”? Or are we trying to assimilate them into existing genders?
Sandra Mooshammer, Katrin Etzrodt
doaj   +1 more source

Context effects: Classroom tests and context independence [PDF]

open access: yesMemory & 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Trolley problems in context [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2011
Would you redirect a trolley to save five people even if it means that the trolley will run over a person on the side track? Most people say they would. Would you push that same person into the path of the trolley in order to save the five?
Christopher Shallow   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Context Effects on Alcohol Cognitions [PDF]

open access: yesAlcoholism: 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   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Attraction comes from many sources: Attentional and comparative processes in decoy effects

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2020
The attraction effect emerges when adding a seemingly irrelevant option (decoy) to a binary choice shifts preference towards a target option. This suggests that choice behaviour is dynamic, i.e., choice values are developed during deliberation, rather ...
Marco Marini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 Lockdown: Key Factors in Citizens’ Stress

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: Confinement due to COVID-19 can have a short‐ and long-term impact on mental health (increased levels of stress and anxiety and emotional upheaval) and on people’s quality of life.
Susana Rodríguez   +5 more
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Effects of Header Images on Different Devices in Web Surveys

open access: yesSurvey Research Methods, 2020
Header images are typically included in web surveys to make surveys more appealing for respondents. However, headers might also induce a systematic bias in response behavior.
Miriam Trübner
doaj   +1 more source

Amodal Completion of Color

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2022
Amodal completion involves the impression of existence and properties of visually occluded parts of objects. One aspect of this phenomenon that has been somewhat neglected is the amodal completion of color, which involves the impression that amodally ...
Todorović Dejan
doaj   +1 more source

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