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Leading questions can bias judgements e.g. of vehicle speed |
Loftus and Palmer (1974) |
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Hindsight effect shows how people remember having predicted an outcome as more likely when they now know that it is true |
Fischoff and Beyth (1975) |
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Positive outcome bias shows beliefs and decisions are based on what is pleasing rather than reality e.g. predicting frowning or smiling faced picture cards. |
Rosenhan and Messick (1966)
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Illusion of control example - drivers rate their chance of an accident as less than average |
Weinstein (1980) |
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Illusion of control example - subjects feel more in control of outcome when they can use a stopping device on a lottery terminal |
Ladouceur (2005) |
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Illusion of control example - coins are tossed and feedback is rigged. Group which gains positive feedback towards beginning rate their performance as higher compared to group who gained positive feedback towards the end. |
Svenson (1981) |
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Not appreciating regression to the mean. Good performance is likely to be followed by a bad performance, and vice versa, pointing out that reward/punishment doesn't maintain good performance. |
Tversky and Kahneman (1973) |
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Failure to ignore sunken costs - subjects kept investing money in a 90% completed project despite being set to fail |
Arkes and Blume (1985) |
