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Article Dans Une Revue Memory and Cognition Année : 2024

Easy-fix attentional focus manipulation boosts the intuitive and deliberate use of base-rate information

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In addressing human reasoning biases, "easy-fix" attentional focus interventions have shown that we can prompt reasoners to align responses with logico-mathematical principles. The current study aimed to test the impact of such interventions on both intuitive and deliberate responses on base-rate items. Using a two-response paradigm, participants provided initial intuitive responses under time constraints and cognitive load, followed by deliberate responses. During the intervention, we used attentional focus manipulations with base-rate items that aimed to redirect participants’ attention toward the “logical” base-rate cue (i.e., the logical intervention) or toward the “heuristic” descriptive cue (i.e., the heuristic intervention). The results indicate that the logical intervention led to improved alignment with logico-mathematical principles in both intuitive and deliberate responses, albeit with a modest effect size. Conversely, the heuristic intervention had no discernible impact on accuracy. This indicates that our attentional focus manipulation is more effective at getting reasoners to respect rather than to override base-rates.

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Psychologie
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hal-04692461 , version 1 (09-09-2024)

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Esther Boissin, Serge Caparos, John Abi Hana, Cyann Bernard, Wim De Neys. Easy-fix attentional focus manipulation boosts the intuitive and deliberate use of base-rate information. Memory and Cognition, 2024, ⟨10.3758/s13421-024-01625-5⟩. ⟨hal-04692461⟩
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