Weighting Information from Outside Sources: A Biased Process

• Main Authors: LUAN, Shenghua, SORKIN, Robert D., ITZKOWITZ, Jesse
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: belief updating; decision bias; decision weights; evidence weighting; information sources; Applied Behavior Analysis
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/272
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How do people utilize information from outside sources in their decisions? Participants observed a signal-plus-noise or noise-alone event and then made a yes-no decision about whether a signal had occurred. Participants were provided with two information sources to aid decision making. Each source c...