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| Tekijä: | Newell, B.R. Mitchell, C.J. Hayes, B.K. |
| Otsikko: | Getting scarred and winning lotteries: Effects of exemplar cuing and statistical format on imagining low-probability events |
| Lehti: | Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
2008 : JUL, VOL. 21:3, p. 317-335 |
| Asiasana: | lotteries probability theories |
| Vapaa asiasana: | exemplar cuing frequency format imaginability |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Three experiments (hereafter as: expms.) are used to test the exemplar cuing (EC) and frequency format (as: f-f.) accounts of how the 'imaginability' (here as: im-ty.) of low-probability (as: l-p.) events is enhanced. The expms. manipulated im-ty. through varying the statistics used to describe negative (e.g. being scarred as a result of laser surgery) and positive (e.g. winning a lottery) l-p. events. The results strongly supported the f-f. account, whereby im-ty. is enhanced by using f-f. for conveying statistical information. However, there is only limited support found for exemplar cuing (EC) theory. In general, the results support the claim that the im-ty. of outcomes plays a key role in thinking about l-p. events, but question the mechanisms specified by EC theory for mediating the effects. |
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