๐ง ๐๏ธ Iโm sharing presentations from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference in #Denver at the URL below:
https://bsky.app/profile/byrdnick.com/post/3m6agtctbhc2b
My poster is about #argumentMapping and #learningScience. You will also find presentations about how to advance #cogSci with #AI tools, do #ProcessTracing in #Qualtrics without #coding, and avoid backfiring in #healthcare #nudges.
Follow to fight FOMO and enjoy #openAccess conferencing.
Do reflection test solutions actually involve reflection?
Our think-aloud studies found they usually do (https://doi.org/10.14264/0f12c1c), but Ryan Jesson found that solution-prompting insight is often unconscious or spontaneous.
#AI reasoning models may seem to reason reflectively when they say things like, "Let me rethink that".
But do these "reflective" phrases predict better reasoning performance?
Not in #Deepseek R1 Zero: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.20783
Why can economic #inequality depress the #minimumWage?
An is-ought #fallacy?
From over 135,000 people in #protests, experiments, and #processTracing studies, scientists found that people seemed to infer what people OUGHT to earn from what they DO earn.
Do people vacillate more before or after they can decide?
In this paper, most vacillations occurred before people could decide about logic or moral problems, except maybe for moral dilemmas.
Check out the #processTracing method: https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2024.15
Want more evidence that mathematical and verbal reflection tests could be measuring somewhat distinct psychological processes?
๐ค Stimulating right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) often impacted performance on the numeric cognitive reflection tests (including a base rate neglect task), but not the verbal cognitive reflection tests (N = 48): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36078
#neuroscience #processTracing #decisionScience #psychology #measurement #assessment
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has shown to have effects on different domโฆ
This short article offers a practical introduction to archival research for political scientists working on European politics. Archival documents are increasingly recognized as a relevant data source for process tracing analyses in small-N or mixed methods studies. Previously classified archival documents are exceptionally trustworthy due to their original confidentiality. Their rich and detailed content facilitates the understanding of causal mechanisms. Still, the hurdles for working with archival sources are high for political scientists. Lack of experience, no special training in handling historic documents, and a shortage of textbooks meeting their demands are a few of the problems political scientists planning archival research face. In the article, I highlight the opportunities of archival research and demonstrate how challenges can be overcome. I emphasize that the archival field trip should only be planned once researchers have gained substantive context knowledge. In their preparation, researchers should use all the resources archives offer and develop measurable expectations from theories.
We didnโt find that thinking aloud disrupted decisions, but will it disrupt athletic performance?
Researchers had 8 trained cyclists and 8 untrained people do a baseline time trial, another time trial, and one more time trial while thinking aloud about exertion and emotion (with a cognitive test before and after each trial).
The abstract suggests no athletic or cognitive differences were detected.
Paywalled article: https://journalofsportbehavior.org/index.php/JSB/article/view/256
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