Questions tagged [decision-making]
For questions regarding the cognitive processes which result in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios.
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How to compare ChatGPT response with human participant responses?
I am doing a study in which I intend to study if the response of chatGPT corresponds to responses by human participants. I will ask human participants (n = 50) to rate the correctness of some ...
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How are the ideas of Karl Weick on sensemaking and George Kelly on the "naive scientist"/Personal Construct Theory regarded currently?
I am looking into ideas on personal sensemaking in relation to the ideas of Karl Weick (originally corporate collective sensemaking in organization theory) and George Kelly's notion of the "naive ...
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Does anyone know if research has been conducted about the Influence of peer presence on object choice? Specifically with elementary school children?
I need to create a two page research proposal for my perception class and it is very important that our research idea has not been used/published before. This is the extremely barebones idea I've come ...
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Is Google's Project Aristotle based on a published study?
Google's Project Aristotle (wayback machine) is relatively well known in the tech world. It emphasizes the important relationship between psychological safety and team productivity. On a few occasions,...
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Is there any research on how to use the "put yourself in the other person's shoes" method effectively?
I recently read "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. One important piece of advice in the book was the ability to understand the other person's perspective. For ...
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Replication or conceptual replication of card trick in Mind Field Ep 8?
In Mind Field S1 E8 Michael Stevens presents a magician performing a trick with participants. Each participant is shown pairs of photographs of people and are given the forced choice of which one they ...
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Wisdom of crowds vs group polarization
I'm having a hard time understanding two concepts: wisdom of crowds and group polarization, at the same time.
Wisdom of crowds states that aggregation of information or prediction, in groups, are ...
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What do experts consider best mental techniques to avoid succumbing to temptations?
The Internet offers conflicting advice on how to resist temptations. For example, this article stresses the importance of willpower:
Animals appear to obey their appetites in the moment; people — at ...
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Alternative to the Beads Task for the role of emotion in belief revision
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I'm interested in understanding how emotion / affect is linked to belief revision. My supervisor suggested I use the classic beads task or something similar to it to get at this problem. ...
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Choices and satisfaction
Say person A can choose from some items one to be his own. After some time he can come back and replace it with another.
A person B can choose as well but cannot replace once chosen.
Are both the ...
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Probability distribution for a random variable related to self-assignment of a person's degree of belief
I am not a psychologist or neuroscientist. I am a mathematician wondering about how a person normally evaluate its own degree of belief in a given proposition.
Suppose a person X is given a question ...
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Do people have an innate preference to take matters into their own hands?
People usually want to make their own decisions. Those looking for spouses often listen to their inner romantic instincts and reject advice from more experienced people. Drivers are skeptical about ...
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How can we overcome positional bias when selecting an option on a screen/document?
I think the question is best described by an example:
You are at a doctors office and are about to have a conversation about you birth control prescription.
Before you can enter you have to decide if ...
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Bayesian models of conspiracy theorists
Are there any theories in cognitive psychology that try to model the belief in conspiracy theories through the lens of Bayesian decision theory?
For reference, in Bayesian decision theory a rational ...
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Why do people seem to do the opposite of what they were told regardless if their actions have repercussions or not?
In My Country Uganda, we are put under total lockdown. a curfew was imposed that starts at 7 Pm, but on the contrary, when it clocked 7 PM, people were not in their houses but rather on the verandas ...
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