A path forward in the investigation of seabird strandings attributed to light attraction
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 A variety of anthropogenic threats cause mortality and population declines of procellariiform seabirds. Globally, fledglings of many colonial procellariiforms become stranded in towns and cities during their first flights from the nest, which occur at ...
Taylor Marie Brown +3 more
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Debiasing training transfers to improve decision making in the field [PDF]
, 2019 The primary objection to debiasing training interventions is a lack of evidence that they transfer to improve decision making in field settings, where reminders of bias are absent.
Morewedge, C. K. +2 more
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Investors’ Behavioural Biases and the Security Market: An Empirical Study of the Nigerian Security Market [PDF]
, 2012 Behavioural biases describe a replicable pattern in perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.
Adetiloye, K. A., Babajide, A. A
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Combined Effects of Knowledge About Others' Opinions and Anticipation of Group Discussion on Confirmatory Information Search [PDF]
, 2008 There is conclusive evidence that information search processes are typically biased in favor of the information seeker’s own opinion (confirmation bias).
Andreas Mojzisch +5 more
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Experiential thinking in creationism--a textual analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Creationism is a religiously motivated worldview in denial of biological evolution that has been very resistant to change. We performed a textual analysis by examining creationist and pro-evolutionary texts for aspects of "experiential thinking", a ...
Petteri Nieminen +2 more
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Illegitimate Values, Confirmation Bias, and Mandevillian Cognition in Science [PDF]
, 2021 In the philosophy of science, it is a common proposal that values are illegitimate in science and should be counteracted whenever they drive inquiry to the confirmation of predetermined conclusions.
Peters, Uwe
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Self-associations influence task-performance through Bayesian inference
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 The way we think about ourselves impacts greatly on our behaviour. This paper describes a behavioural study and a computational model that sheds new light on this important area.
Sara L Bengtsson, William Douglas Penny
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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance [PDF]
, 2017 Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause ...
Cruz, Manuel Padilla
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Cogent Psychology, 2019 A large body of research has focused on legal decision-making. However, few studies have tested the impact on evidence processing of the intimate conviction (IC) instruction, a decision rule based on impression formation that is used in mixed courts of ...
Catherine Esnard, Rafaele Dumas
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Caries detection in primary teeth is less challenging than in permanent teeth
Dental Hypotheses, 2013 Introduction: Most studies about caries detection methods have been performed using permanent teeth. Primary teeth, however, present significant differences from permanent teeth; hence findings of these studies with permanent teeth cannot be extrapolated.
Fausto M Mendes, Mariana M Braga
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