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Category: Evidence Accumulation

How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot

January 1, 2018 David J. Johnson, Joseph Cesario, and Timothy J. Pleskac

Social psychologists have relied on computerized shooting tasks to test whether race influences decisions to shoot. These studies reveal that…

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Posted in: Choice Environment, Evidence Accumulation, Police Shootings, Real World Scenario Filed under: publication

Interference effects of choice on confidence: Quantum characteristics of evidence accumulation

January 1, 2015 Peter D. Kvam, Timothy J. Pleskac, Shuli Yu, and Jerome R. Busemeyer

Decision-making relies on a process of evidence accumulation which generates support for possible hypotheses. Models of this process derived from…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Making, Evidence Accumulation Filed under: publication

Dynamics of postdecisional processing of confidence

Shuli Yu, Timothy J. Pleskac, and Matthew D. Zeigenfuse

Most cognitive theories assume that confidence and choice happen simultaneously and are based on the same information. The 3 studies…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Making, Evidence Accumulation Filed under: publication

Two-stage dynamic signal detection: A theory of choice, decision time, and confidence

January 1, 2010 Timothy J. Pleskac, and Jerome R. Busemeyer

The 3 most often-used performance measures in the cognitive and decision sciences are choice, response or decision time, and confidence.…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Time, Evidence Accumulation, Preferential Choice, Signal Detection Filed under: publication

Lab News

  • Dr. Pleskac to join panel discussion on Mapping Behavior Around the Virus: Behavioral Scientists Examine Activity Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
  • The ecology of competition: A theory of risk–reward environments in adaptive decision making
  • Dr. Pleskac to give a talk at the Science Matters Brown Bag Lunch and Learn: Tools for Thinking about Risk During the Pandemic
  • Dr. Pleskac joins Living Lab Radio for podcast on Taming Uncertainty
  • Institute for Policy & Social Research 2018-2019 Luncheon
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