{"pk":28097,"title":"Tasks That Prime Deliberative Processes Boost Base Rate Use","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Obrecht and Chesney (2016) contend that deliberation supports\ngreater base rate use. In line with this, they found that\nprompting deliberation by evaluating arguments about the\nusefulness of base rate and/or stereotype data increased\nsubsequent use of base rates in judgment tasks. However, an\nalternative account of these results is that the intervention\nincreased base rate use merely by increasing the salience of\nbase rate information, rather than by increasing deliberation.\nHere we examine these accounts in two experiments.\nExperiment 1 showed that participants prompted to deliberate\nby evaluating arguments used base rates more in subsequent\njudgements, compared to participants who were merely\nreminded of relevant information. Experiment 2 showed that\nparticipants prompted to deliberate by completing math\nproblems prior to the judgment task also increased their base\nrate use. Taken together, these results support the theory that\ntasks that prompt deliberative processes increase normative use\nof base rates.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"statistical inference; judgment; decision making;\nbase rates; normative behavior; priming; numeracy"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08s3v9zs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Natalie","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Obrecht","name_suffix":"","institution":"William Paterson University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dana","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Chesney","name_suffix":"","institution":"St Johns University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28097/galley/17738/download/"}]}