How economic success shapes redistribution: The role of self-serving beliefs, in-group bias and justice principles [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 In the face of economic inequalities, redistribution of wealth is a key debate for society, and understanding the reasons why individuals may support more or less redistribution can inform this debate.
Camille Dorin +4 more
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Risky choice in younger versus older adults: Affective context matters [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Earlier frameworks have indicated that older adults tend to experience decline in their deliberative decisional capacity, while their affective abilities tend to remain intact (Peters, Hess, Vastfjall, and Auman, 2007).
Yumi Huang +3 more
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Does pregnancy make women more cautious and calm? The impact of pregnancy on risk decision-making [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2020 During pregnancy, a variety of psychological and physical changes occur in women, which may have different impacts on risk decision-making involving different processes systems.
Jing Chen +4 more
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Perspective neglect: Inadequate perspective taking limits coordination [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 People need to take others’ perspectives into account in order to successfully coordinate their actions and optimally allocate limited resources like time, attention, or space.
Elanor F. Williams +2 more
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Does telling white lies signal pro-social preferences? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2015 The opportunity to tell a white lie (i.e., a lie that benefits another person) generates a moral conflict between two opposite moral dictates, one pushing towards telling the truth always and the other pushing towards helping others.
Laura Biziou-van-Pol +4 more
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Explaining human sampling rates across different decision domains [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 Undersampling biases are common in the optimal stopping literature, especially for economic full choice problems. Among these kinds of number-based studies, the moments of the distribution of values that generates the options (i.e., the generating ...
Didrika S. van de Wouw +3 more
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The impact of excess choice on deferment of decisions to volunteer [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2011 Excess choice has previously been shown to have detrimental effects on decisions about consumer products. As the number of options increases, people are more likely to put off making an active choice (i.e., defer) and show less satisfaction with any ...
Lauren S. Carroll +2 more
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When and why people perform mindless math [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 In this paper, we show that the presence of numbers in a problem tempts people to perform mathematical operations even when the correct answer requires no math, which we term “mindless math”.
M. Asher Lawson +2 more
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The role of actively open-minded thinking in information acquisition, accuracy, and calibration [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 Errors in estimating and forecasting often result from the failure to collect and consider enough relevant information. We examine whether attributes associated with persistence in information acquisition can predict performance in an estimation task. We
Uriel Haran +2 more
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Hypothesized drivers of the bias blind spot—cognitive sophistication, introspection bias, and conversational processes [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 Individuals often assess themselves as being less susceptible to common biases compared to others. This bias blind spot (BBS) is thought to represent a metacognitive error.
David R. Mandel +4 more
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