TY - GEN
T1 - Variability in advice taking in decision making
AU - Kitamura, Miho
AU - Watanabe, Katsumi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partly supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency and Genesis Research Institute Inc.
Publisher Copyright:
© CogSci 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - We investigated how people would change and vary in accepting advice when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. In each trial, participants estimated a monthly rent of an apartment room based on the attribute list. Then, another estimate by a real-estate agent was given as advice. Participants made a final estimation, either by taking the advice fully, partially, or rejecting it totally. They repeated 48 estimations without feedback. The weight of advice index, representing how much each participant weighed a given advice, gradually decreased as the number of trials increased. Interestingly, the gradual reduction of acceptance was not observed in participants with high empathy and low depressive scores; they kept accepting advice even when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. These results suggest that the willingness of accepting and using advice depends on history of advice taking, the individual traits, and mood.
AB - We investigated how people would change and vary in accepting advice when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. In each trial, participants estimated a monthly rent of an apartment room based on the attribute list. Then, another estimate by a real-estate agent was given as advice. Participants made a final estimation, either by taking the advice fully, partially, or rejecting it totally. They repeated 48 estimations without feedback. The weight of advice index, representing how much each participant weighed a given advice, gradually decreased as the number of trials increased. Interestingly, the gradual reduction of acceptance was not observed in participants with high empathy and low depressive scores; they kept accepting advice even when the effectiveness of advice was unclear. These results suggest that the willingness of accepting and using advice depends on history of advice taking, the individual traits, and mood.
KW - advice taking
KW - decision making
KW - individual difference
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition
SP - 2426
EP - 2431
BT - CogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition, CogSci 2017
Y2 - 26 July 2017 through 29 July 2017
ER -