ArticleCognition2020
How decisions and the desire for coherency shape subjective preferences over time.
Article in Cognition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Sequential consumer choice as multi-cued retrieval.Science advances · 2022Article
- What Can Mobile Sensing and Assessment Strategies Capture About Human Subjectivity?Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
- Choice perseverance underlies pursuing a hard-to-get target in an avatar choice task.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Multiscale Computation and Dynamic Attention in Biological and Artificial Intelligence.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Analog Resonance Computation: A New Model for Human Cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Investigating the origin and consequences of endogenous default options in repeated economic choices.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent findings suggest a bidirectional relationship between preferences and choices such that what is chosen can become preferred. Yet, it is still commonly held that preferences for individual items are maintained, such as caching a separate value estimate for each experienced option. Instead, we propose that all possible choice options and preferences are represented in a shared, continuous, multidimensional space that supports generalization. Decision making is cast as a learning process that seeks to align choices and preferences to maintain coherency. We formalized an error-driven learning model that updates preferences to align with past choices, which makes repeating those and related choices more likely in the future. The model correctly predicts that making a free choice increases preferences along related attributes. For example, after choosing a political candidate based on trivial information (e.g., they like cats), voters' views on abortion, immigration, and trade subsequently shifted to match their chosen candidate.
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