ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

The Effect of Source on Judgment Change for Health Decisions

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Cognitive Science

  • Talia Robbins
    Rutgers University
  • Pernille Hemmer
    Rutgers University

Abstract

People show greater judgment change after receiving information from experts than from online resources or past experience. We characterize participant behavior using a rational model assuming judgment is a linear weighted combination of initial judgments and source information, weighted by expectations for the quality of each piece of information.

Cognitive Processes

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