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Suzuki, Atsunobu; Honma, Yoshiko; Suga, Sayaka – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Our ability to learn about the reputations of others--that is, who is likely to cooperate versus cheat--contributes greatly to cooperativeness in society. There has been recent debate whether humans employ memory bias favoring cheaters (i.e., there is an evolved module for the detection of cheaters) or whether no such bias exists (i.e., reputation…
Descriptors: Reputation, Cheating, Cooperation, Memory
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Kutzner, Florian; Freytag, Peter; Vogel, Tobias; Fiedler, Klaus – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
When humans predict criterion events based on probabilistic predictors, they often lend excessive weight to the predictor and insufficient weight to the base rate of the criterion event. In an operant analysis, using a matching-to-sample paradigm, Goodie and Fantino (1996) showed that humans exhibit base-rate neglect when predictors are associated…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Prediction, Operant Conditioning, Predictor Variables