When a decision maker begins to favor a particular choice option, this tentative preference
often shifts the evaluation of subsequent information in a manner that benefits the early …

Background. First impressions are thought to exert a disproportionate influence on
subsequent judgments; however, their role in medical diagnosis has not been systematically …

We explore how preferences for attributes are constructed when people choose between
multiattribute options. As found in prior research, we observed that while people make …

Substitution decisions have been examined from a variety of perspectives. The economics
literature measures cross-price elasticity, operations research models optimal assortments …

Legal judgments require one to make sense of a complex set of typically contradicting
pieces of information that can easily be interpreted in a biased manner. This systematic …

This chapter focuses on dual process (or) dual system models that differentiate between
more automatic versus more controlled processes. It describes and clarifies different …

States along the phosphoryl transfer reaction catalyzed by the nucleoside monophosphate
kinase UmpK were captured and changes in the conformational heterogeneity of conserved …

In four experiments involving choices between apartments, we decomposed predecisional
information distortion into positive distortion of information about the tentatively leading …

As agents seeking to learn how to successfully navigate their environments, humans can
both obtain knowledge through direct experience, and second-hand through communicated …

In the study reported here, I tracked one process through which stereotypes affect choice.
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a measurement of predecisional information …