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Decisions to intervene on causal systems are adaptively selected

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: How do people choose interventions to learn about a causal system?Here, we tested two possibilities: an optimal information sampling strategy which aims to discriminate between multiple hypotheses, and a second strategy that aims to confirm individual hypotheses.We show in Experiment 1 that individual behavior is best fit using a mixture of these two options.In a second experiment, we find that people are able to adaptively alter the strategies they use in response to their expected payoff in a particular task environment.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: Anna Coenen, Bob Rehder, Todd M. Gureckis

Language: English

Topic: Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Subfield: General Decision Sciences

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

Awards: CAREER: The Role of Self-Directed Learning in Facilitating Concept Acquisition: Advancing Research and Training in the Cognitive Science of Learning, G8567638427

OpenAlex ID: W2400672167

FWCI: 1.05

Cites: 15

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10