On the use of recognition in inferential decision making: An overview of the debate
Journal Title: Judgment and Decision Making - Year 2011, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
I describe and discuss the sometimes heated controversy surrounding the recognition heuristic (RH) as a model of inferential decision making. After briefly recapitulating the history of the RH up to its current version, I critically evaluate several specific assumptions and predictions of the RH and its surrounding framework: recognition as a memory-based process; the RH as a cognitive process model; proper conditions of testing the RH; measures of using the RH; reasons for not using the RH; the RH as a non-compensatory strategy; evidence for a Less-is-more effect (LIME); and the RH as part of the toolbox. The collection of these controversial issues may help to better understand the debate, to further sharpen the RH theory, and to develop ideas for future research.
Authors and Affiliations
Rüdiger F. Pohl
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP677830
- DOI -
- Views 145
- Downloads 0
Procedural priming of a numerical cognitive illusion
A strategy activated in one task may be transferred to subsequent tasks and prevent activation of other strategies that would otherwise come to mind, a mechanism referred to as procedural priming. In a novel application...
The potential relationship between spicy taste and risk seeking
We conducted three studies to examine the relationship between spicy tastes and risk seeking. In Study 1, results from a personality judgment task indicated that people were more inclined to attribute a higher level of r...
Stepwise training supports strategic second-order theory of mind
People model other people’s mental states in order to understand and predict their behavior. Sometimes they model what others think about them as well: “He thinks that I intend to stop.” Such second-order theory of mind...
Consumers can make decisions in as little as a third of a second
We make hundreds of decisions every day, many of them extremely quickly and without much explicit deliberation. This motivates two important open questions: What is the minimum time required to make choices with above ch...
Applying the decision moving window to risky choice: Comparison of eye-tracking and mouse-tracing methods
Currently, a disparity exists between the process-level models decision researchers use to describe and predict decision behavior and the methods implemented and metrics collected to test these models. The current work s...