Grouping information for judgments

Models of cue weighting in judgment have typically focused on how decision-makers weight cues individually. Here, the authors propose that people might recognize and weight groups of cues. They examine how judgments change when decision-makers focus on cues individually or as parts of groups. Severa...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 140; no. 1; p. 1
Main Authors: Shah, Anuj K, Oppenheimer, Daniel M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 01.02.2011
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Cues
Decision Making - physiology
Female
Humans
Judgment - physiology
Male
ISSN:1939-2222, 1939-2222
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Summary:Models of cue weighting in judgment have typically focused on how decision-makers weight cues individually. Here, the authors propose that people might recognize and weight groups of cues. They examine how judgments change when decision-makers focus on cues individually or as parts of groups. Several experiments demonstrate that people can spontaneously pack information into cue groups. Moreover, group-level weighting depends on how people assess similarity or how they think of categorical hierarchies.
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ISSN:1939-2222
1939-2222
DOI:10.1037/a0021946