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Self-Distancing Reduces Probability-Weighting Biases

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, June 2018
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Title
Self-Distancing Reduces Probability-Weighting Biases
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00611
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Authors

Qingzhou Sun, Huanren Zhang, Liyang Sai, Fengpei Hu

Abstract

We have abundant evidence that people exhibit biases in weighting probability information. The current study aims to examine whether self-distancing would reduce these biases. Participants in this study were instructed to use either a self-distancing or a self-immersing strategy to regulate their reasoning when they indicated their valuations of different lotteries. The results show that, compared to the baseline group, participants in the self-distancing group exhibited less distortion in the probability-weighting function, while those in the self-immersing group exhibited more distortion. These results offer evidence for the power of self-distancing in reducing probability-weighting biases.

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Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 22%
Student > Master 4 22%
Student > Bachelor 3 17%
Student > Postgraduate 1 6%
Unknown 6 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 7 39%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 17%
Linguistics 1 6%
Materials Science 1 6%
Engineering 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 12 June 2019.
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