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    "title": "The Role of Causal Information and Perceived Knowledge in Decision-Making",
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    "abstract": "Causal knowledge is key to making effective decisions, yet little is known about how we combine new causal informa-tion with what we already know. This scenario, with a mix of prior beliefs and new information is common to manysettings, and is pervasive in health decisions. We specifically examine how decision-making with causal models differs inabstract decisions versus those more reminiscent of daily life, and how new information interacts with people’s perceivedknowledge about the decision-making domains. We found that while people can successfully use causal models to answerabstract questions, causal models can lead to worse choices in everyday decisions, especially when people believe theyknow a lot about the domain (Experiment 1). We then used an IOED task to determine if showing people how little theyactually understand about a domain may improve the use of causal models in decision-making (Experiment 2).",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Poster Presentations with Abstracts",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Min",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zheng",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stevens Institute of Technology",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jessecae",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Marsh",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lehigh University",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Samantha",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kleinberg",
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            "institution": "Stevens Institute of Technology",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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