{"pk":29745,"title":"Tell me something I don’t know: How perceived knowledge influences the use ofinformation during decision making","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We are often confronted with new causal information aboutthe world, such as what causes a disease. What we think weknow may influence if and how we choose to use this new in-formation. Yet as prior work has shown, we are not alwayssuccessful at evaluating our own knowledge. We explored howhelping people better understand what they know about a do-main can influence their ability to use new causal informationin a decision-making context. Participants self-assessed theirknowledge (Experiment 1) or completed an objective assess-ment of their knowledge (Experiment 2) of diabetes, beforemaking diabetes-related decisions, either with or without newcausal information. Without a knowledge assessment, partic-ipants were less accurate with new causal information com-pared to without such information, replicating previous work.However, reassessing their knowledge increased participants’decision-making accuracy with causal information. We dis-cuss why helping people realize the limits of their causal un-derstanding may make them better supplement it with new in-formation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision making; illusion of explanatory depth;causality; diabetes"}],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dm9z057","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samantha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kleinberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stevens Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Jessecae","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Marsh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stevens Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29745/galley/19601/download/"}]}