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Embodying Bounded Rationality: From Embodied Bounded Rationality to Embodied Rationality

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Views of embodied cognition vary in degree of radicalism. The goal of this article is to explore how the range of moderate and radical views of embodied cognition can inform new approaches to rationality.
Enrico Petracca
exaly   +3 more sources

Time pressure reduces misinformation discrimination ability but does not alter response bias

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Many parts of our social lives are speeding up, a process known as social acceleration. How social acceleration impacts people’s ability to judge the veracity of online news, and ultimately the spread of misinformation, is largely unknown.
Mubashir Sultan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

How experts’ own inconsistency relates to their confidence and between-expert disagreement

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
People routinely rely on experts’ advice to guide their decisions. However, experts are known to make inconsistent judgments when judging the same case twice.
Aleksandra Litvinova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Online platforms’ data give advertisers the ability to “microtarget” recipients’ personal vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same thing, such as a product or political candidate.
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychological factors shaping public responses to COVID-19 digital contact tracing technologies in Germany

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen one of the first large-scale uses of digital contact tracing to track a chain of infection and contain the spread of a virus.
Anastasia Kozyreva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
People rely on data-driven AI technologies nearly every time they go online, whether they are shopping, scrolling through news feeds, or looking for entertainment.
Anastasia Kozyreva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Susceptibility to misinformation is consistent across question framings and response modes and better explained by myside bias and partisanship than analytical thinking

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2022
Misinformation presents a significant societal problem. To measure individuals’ susceptibility to misinformation and study its predictors, researchers have used a broad variety of ad-hoc item sets, scales, question framings, and response modes.
Jon Roozenbeek   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concurrent visual working memory bias in sequential integration of approximate number

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Previous work has shown bidirectional crosstalk between Working Memory (WM) and perception such that the contents of WM can alter concurrent percepts and vice versa. Here, we examine WM-perception interactions in a new task setting.
Zhiqi Kang, Bernhard Spitzer
doaj   +1 more source

Age-related differences in strategic competition

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Understanding how people of different ages decide in competition is a question of theoretical and practical importance. Using an experimental laboratory approach, this research investigates the ability of younger and older adults to think and act ...
Sebastian S. Horn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Systematic metacognitive reflection helps people discover far-sighted decision strategies: A process-tracing experiment

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2023
Short-sighted decisions can have devastating consequences, and teaching people to make their decisions in a more far-sighted way is challenging. Previous research found that reflecting on one’s behavior can boost learning from success and failure.
Frederic Becker   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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