{"pk":25451,"title":"Are Biases When Making Causal Interventions Related to\nBiases in Belief Updating?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"People often make decisions with the goal of gaining information\nwhich can help reduce their uncertainty. However, recent\nwork has suggested that people sometimes do not select the\nmost diagnostic information queries available to them. A critical\naspect of information search decisions is evaluating how\nobtaining a piece of information will alter a learner’s beliefs\n(e.g., a piece of information that is redundant with what is already\nknown is useless). This suggests a close relationship\nbetween information seeking decisions on one hand, and belief\nupdating on the other. This paper explores the deeper relationship\nbetween these two constructs in a causal intervention\nlearning task. We find that patterns in belief updating biases\nare predictive of decision making patterns in tasks where\npeople must make interventions learn about the structure of a\ncausal system.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"information search; causal interventions; causal\nlearning; hypothesis testing"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5df742nf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Coenen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, NYU","department":""},{"first_name":"Todd","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Gureckis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, NYU","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25451/galley/15075/download/"}]}