Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Type

Book

Authors

Klaus Fiedler

Peter Juslin

ISBN 10

0521539331

ISBN 13

9780521539333

Tags

Mental Health, Research, Social Psychology & Interactions, Remote Sensing & GIS, Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, Cognitive

Description

Even the most intelligent and informed judges and decision makers have been shown to be prone to errors and biases with potentially serious consequences. Previous scientific attempts to explain the causes of wrong decisions have mainly focused on shortcomings in the cognitive processing of the information given. The recent research reviewed in the present volume offers an intriguing alternative for consideration. Although the input of environmental information samples may be biased, the cognitive processing of information samples is often unbiased and remarkably accurate. - from Amzon

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