Predecisional information distortion in physicians' diagnostic judgments: Strengthening a leading hypothesis or weakening its competitor?

Decision makers have been found to bias their interpretation of incoming information to support an emerging judgment (predecisional information distortion). This is a robust finding in human judgment, and was recently also established and measured in physicians' diagnostic judgments (Kostopoul...

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Main Authors: Martine Nurek, Olga Kostopoulou, York Hagmayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2014-11-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/14/14707/jdm14707.pdf