{"pk":25686,"title":"Active learning as a means to distinguish among prominent decision strategies","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A long-standing debate in decision making has been whether\npeople rely on very little information for making choices, or\nweigh and add all available information. We propose a new\nmethod to determine whether a non-compensatory (Take-The-\nBest) or compensatory strategy (Logistic Regression) is more\npsychologically plausible: by looking at peoples active learning\nqueries. This method goes beyond traditional model selection\ntechniques as it reveals the information people choose to\nlearn early on, which subsequently drives their decisions. We\ndeveloped active learning algorithms for both Take-The-Best\nand Logistic Regression, and designed an active learning experiment\nto distinguish between these models. By letting both\nmodels and humans actively learn, we could compare their\nqueries, and found that people follow a rank-based learning\nstrategy in non-compensatory environments, but prefer more\ncertainty-based queries in compensatory environments. We\nargue that active learning studies provide a promising new\nmethodology to distinguish among decision models","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision making"},{"word":"Heuristics"},{"word":"active learning"},{"word":"Take-The-Best"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gn987jf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Paula","middle_name":"","last_name":"Parpart","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Eric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Maarten","middle_name":"","last_name":"Speebrink","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","department":""},{"first_name":"Bradley","middle_name":"C","last_name":"Love","name_suffix":"","institution":"University College London","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/25686/galley/15310/download/"}]}