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Title |
Competing Biases in Mental Arithmetic: When Division Is More and Multiplication Is Less
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Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, February 2017
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DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00037 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Samuel Shaki, Martin H. Fischer |
Abstract |
Mental arithmetic exhibits various biases. Among those is a tendency to overestimate addition and to underestimate subtraction outcomes. Does such "operational momentum" (OM) also affect multiplication and division? Twenty-six adults produced lines whose lengths corresponded to the correct outcomes of multiplication and division problems shown in symbolic format. We found a reliable tendency to over-estimate division outcomes, i.e., reverse OM. We suggest that anchoring on the first operand (a tendency to use this number as a reference for further quantitative reasoning) contributes to cognitive biases in mental arithmetic. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
Spain | 1 | 17% |
Japan | 1 | 17% |
United States | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 6 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 27 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 22% |
Student > Master | 4 | 15% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 11% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 7% |
Researcher | 2 | 7% |
Other | 5 | 19% |
Unknown | 5 | 19% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 16 | 59% |
Neuroscience | 2 | 7% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 7% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 4% |
Philosophy | 1 | 4% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 5 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 February 2017.
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#13,314,747
of 23,792,386 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#3,565
of 7,354 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#200,315
of 423,882 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#97
of 182 outputs
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