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    "pk": 25710,
    "title": "The Attentional Learning Trap and How to Avoid It",
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    "abstract": "People often make repeated decisions from experience. In such\nscenarios, persistent biases of choice can develop, most notably\nthe “hot stove effect” (Denrell & March, 2001) in which\na prospect that is mistakenly believed to be negative is avoided\nand thus belief-correcting information is never obtained. In\nthe existing literature, the hot stove effect is generally thought\nof as developing through interaction with a single, stochastic\nprospect. Here, we show how a similar bias can develop due to\npeople’s tendency to selectively attend to a subset of features\nduring categorization. We first explore the bias through model\nsimulation, then report on an experiment in which we find evidence\nof a decisional bias linked to selective attention. Finally,\nwe use these computational models to design novel interventions\nto “de-bias” decision-makers, some of which may have\npractical application",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "decision-making"
        },
        {
            "word": "Categorization"
        },
        {
            "word": "selective attention"
        },
        {
            "word": "approach-avoid behavior"
        },
        {
            "word": "biases"
        },
        {
            "word": "learning traps"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sc236bz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alexander",
            "middle_name": "S",
            "last_name": "Rich",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Todd",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Gureckis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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