Exploring information use in children’s decision-making: Base-rate neglect and trust in testimony.
Volume: 149, Issue: 8, Pages: 1527 - 1536
Published: Aug 1, 2020
Abstract
Classic literature in judgment and decision-making shows that when testimony information conflicts with base-rates, adults typically underuse base-rate information and rely heavily on testimony (Bar-Hillel, 1980; Lyon & Slovic, 1976; Tversky & Kahneman, 1981). Although children can use base-rates (Denison, Konopczynski, Garcia, & Xu, 2006; Kushnir, Xu, & Wellman, 2010) and testimony (Koenig & Harris, 2005) separately in their inferences, whether...
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Title
Exploring information use in children’s decision-making: Base-rate neglect and trust in testimony.
Published Date
Aug 1, 2020
Volume
149
Issue
8
Pages
1527 - 1536
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