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Rutchick, Abraham M.; Ross, Bryan J.; Calvillo, Dustin P.; Mesick, Catherine C. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2020
The "surprisingly popular" method (SP) of aggregating individual judgments has shown promise in overcoming a weakness of other crowdsourcing methods--situations in which the majority is incorrect. This method relies on participants' estimates of other participants' judgments; when an option is chosen more often than the average…
Descriptors: Prediction, Predictive Measurement, Evaluative Thinking, Metacognition
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Smelter, Thomas J.; Calvillo, Dustin P. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Fake news, deliberately inaccurate and often biased information that is presented as accurate reporting, is perceived as a serious threat. Recent research on fake news has documented a high general susceptibility to the phenomenon and has focused on investigating potential explanatory factors. The present study examined how features of news…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Repetition, Accuracy, News Reporting
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Calvillo, Dustin P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
One component of hindsight bias is memory distortion. This component is measured with a memory design, in which individuals answer questions, learn the correct answers, and recall their original answers. Hindsight bias occurs when participants' recollections are closer to the correct answers than their original judgments actually were. The present…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Bias, Memory, Evaluative Thinking