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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 165-169 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | COGNITION |
| Volume | 190 |
| Early online date | 20 May 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
When making judgments (e.g., about the quality of job candidates)decision makers should ignore salient, but unrepresentative information (e.g., the person's name). However, research suggests that salient information influences judgments, possibly because memories of past encounters with similar information are integrated into the judgment. We studied eye movements to trace the link between the retrieval of past instances and their influence on judgments. Participants were more likely to look at screen locations where exemplars matching items on a name attribute had appeared, suggesting the retrieval of exemplars. Eye movements to exemplar locations predicted judgments, explaining why names influenced judgments. The results provide insights into how exemplars are integrated into the judgment process when assessing memory retrieval online.
Keywords
- Bias, Eye movements, Multi-cue judgments, Process tracing, Retrieval, Similarity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology(all)
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Neuroscience(all)
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Language and Linguistics
- Social Sciences(all)
- Linguistics and Language
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In: COGNITION, Vol. 190, 09.2019, p. 165-169.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Memory shapes judgments
T2 - Tracing how memory biases judgments by inducing the retrieval of exemplars
AU - Rosner, Agnes
AU - von Helversen, Bettina
N1 - Funding Information: Both authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (grant no. 157432 ). Furthermore, the authors thank Henrik Singmann for helpful comments on mixed effects modeling and Ramona Obrist for collecting the data.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - When making judgments (e.g., about the quality of job candidates)decision makers should ignore salient, but unrepresentative information (e.g., the person's name). However, research suggests that salient information influences judgments, possibly because memories of past encounters with similar information are integrated into the judgment. We studied eye movements to trace the link between the retrieval of past instances and their influence on judgments. Participants were more likely to look at screen locations where exemplars matching items on a name attribute had appeared, suggesting the retrieval of exemplars. Eye movements to exemplar locations predicted judgments, explaining why names influenced judgments. The results provide insights into how exemplars are integrated into the judgment process when assessing memory retrieval online.
AB - When making judgments (e.g., about the quality of job candidates)decision makers should ignore salient, but unrepresentative information (e.g., the person's name). However, research suggests that salient information influences judgments, possibly because memories of past encounters with similar information are integrated into the judgment. We studied eye movements to trace the link between the retrieval of past instances and their influence on judgments. Participants were more likely to look at screen locations where exemplars matching items on a name attribute had appeared, suggesting the retrieval of exemplars. Eye movements to exemplar locations predicted judgments, explaining why names influenced judgments. The results provide insights into how exemplars are integrated into the judgment process when assessing memory retrieval online.
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KW - Eye movements
KW - Multi-cue judgments
KW - Process tracing
KW - Retrieval
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U2 - 10.1016/J.COGNITION.2019.05.004
DO - 10.1016/J.COGNITION.2019.05.004
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