The Recognition Heuristic in Memory-Based Inference: Is Recognition a Non-compensatory Cue?

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serval:BIB_B31004D993E4
Type
Partie de livre
Sous-type
Chapitre: chapitre ou section
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Titre
The Recognition Heuristic in Memory-Based Inference: Is Recognition a Non-compensatory Cue?
Titre du livre
Heuristics: The foundations of adaptive behavior
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Pachur T., Bröder A., Marewski J. N.
Editeur
Oxford University Press
Lieu d'édition
New York, NY, USA
ISBN
9780199744282
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2011
Editeur⸱rice scientifique
Gigerenzer G., Hertwig R., Pachur T.
Pages
503-522
Langue
anglais
Résumé
The recognition heuristic makes the strong claim that probabilistic inferences in which a recognized object is compared to an unrecognized one are made solely on the basis of whether the objects are recognized or not, ignoring all other available cues. This claim has been seriously challenged by a number of studies that have shown a clear effect of additional cue knowledge. In most of these studies, either recognition knowledge was acquired during the experiment, and/or additional cues were provided to participants. However, the recognition heuristic is more likely to be a tool for exploiting natural (rather than induced) recognition when inferences have to be made from memory. in this chapter's study on natural recognition and inferences from memory, around 85% of the inferences followed recognition information even when participants had learned three cues that contradicted recognition and when some of the contradictory cues were deemed more valid than recognition. Nevertheless, there were strong individual differences in the use of recognition. Whereas about half of the participants chose the recognized object regardless of the number of conflicting cues—suggestive of the hypothesized noncompensatory processing of recognition—the remaining participants were influenced by the additional knowledge. In addition, we found that the use of recognition for an inference may be affected by whether additional cue knowledge has been learned outside or within the experimental setting.
Mots-clé
Recognition heuristic, Decision making, Moncompensatory strategies, Memory
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25/10/2011 15:15
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20/08/2019 15:21
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