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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Belief Bias"”.
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Debiasing reasoning : a signal detection analysis
… focuses on deductive reasoning and how the belief bias effect can be reduced or ameliorated. Belief bias is a phenomenon whereby the evaluation of the logical validity of an argument is skewed by the degree to which the reasoner believes the conclusion. There has been little research …
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Modelling a Fractionated System of Deductive Reasoning over Categorical Syllogisms
… patients. The model successfully combines belief-bias and other known cognitive biases with a mental models formal approach to recreate the congruency by group effect present in the human data. Implications are drawn to major theories of reasoning.
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Can investors fully adjust for known biases in manager communications?
Managerial communications often contain biased information because of managerial incentives and other influences. A common assumption in the accounting literature is that if investors are aware of managerial biases, they will be able to fully adjust for those known biases when reacting to …
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Believe It or Not: Examining the Case for Intuitive Logic and Effortful Beliefs
… test the Default Interventionist (DI) account of belief-bias in human reasoning using the novel methodology introduced by Handley, Newstead & Trippas (2011). DI accounts focus on how our prior beliefs are the intuitive output that bias our reasoning process (Evans, 2006), whilst judgments based on …