Information sampling, judgment and the environment: Application to the effect of popularity on evaluations

• Main Authors: LE MENS, Gaël, DENRELL, Jerker, KOVACS, Balázs, KARAMAN, Hülya
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Information Sampling; Learning; Beliefs; Attitudes; Judgments; Biases; Social Influence; Cognitive Psychology; Marketing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5995; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6994/viewcontent/Topics_in_Cognitive_Science___2018___Le_Mens___Information_Sampling__Judgment__and_the_Environment__Application_to_the.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6994/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/tops12387_sup_0001_supinfo.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

If people avoid alternatives they dislike, a negative evaluative bias emerges because errorsof under-evaluation are unlikely to be corrected. Prior work that analyzed this mechanismhas shown that when the social environment exposes people to avoided alternatives (i.e. itmakes them resample them), th...