{"pk":25644,"title":"Reasoning About Diverse Evidence in Preference Predictions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"People often incorporate the opinions of others to make\npredictions about the world, including their preferences for\nnovel experiences and items. In two experiments, we explored\nhow people use the opinions of dissimilar others in making\nsuch predictions. While social cognition research has found\nthat similar others tend to influence our judgments more than\ndissimilar others, the diversity principle from category-based\ninduction argues that we value evidence from diverse sources.\nOur results suggest that people seek and use information from\ndissimilar others differently when predicting their own\npreferences than when making predictions with more\nverifiable values. For self-relevant predictions, participants\nwere less likely to seek the opinion of dissimilar advisors\n(Experiment 1) and more likely to contrast their judgments\naway from these advisors’ opinions (Experiment 2).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Advice; category-based induction; diversity;\npreferences; social influence"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s734738","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rachel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Meng","name_suffix":"","institution":"Columbia University","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephanie","middle_name":"Y","last_name":"Chen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Bartels","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25644/galley/15268/download/"}]}