Bias-Trigger Manipulation and Task-Form Understanding in Monty Hall

Autor: Kaivanto, Kim, Kroll, Eike B., Zabinski, Michael
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Economics Bulletin. 34(1):89-98
Popis: Monty Hall is a difficult task which triggers multiple biases. With sophisticated subjects and treatments that reverse and eliminate these triggers, non-rational choice is greatly reduced. Among task-familiar subjects, non-rational choice can can fall to background-error levels. But as our data also show, task-form recognition is necessary but not sufficient for rational choice when the task calls for conditional probability reasoning rather than simple rule-based behavior, as in e.g. 'Switch in Monty Hall.' Task-form understanding, a more stringent requirement, proves to be necessary and sufficient for rational choice in generalized Monty Hall conditional probability reasoning tasks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE