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dc.contributor.authorKlevjer, Kristoffer
dc.contributor.authorPfuhl, Gerit
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-04T08:55:38Z
dc.date.available2023-04-04T08:55:38Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-19
dc.description.abstractJumping to Conclusions’, or hasty decision making, is widely studied within clinical and computational psychology. It is typically investigated using the ‘beads task’, a sequential information sampling paradigm, and defining one or two draws as jumping to conclusion. Situational experimental conditions, e.g., group vs. individual testing, abstract vs. cover story, show-up fee or course credit, frequently vary between studies. Little effort has been dedicated to investigating the potential effects of demand characteristics on hasty decision making. We explored this in four samples of participants (n = 336), in different situational experiment conditions, with two distinct variations of the beads task. An abstract ‘Draws to Decision’ (DtD) variant, and a cover story combined DtD and probabilistic inferences variant. Situational conditions did not have a significant effect on overall DtD for either variant. However, when using ‘extreme scores’ (DtD of 1 or 1 to 2) as a measure of hasty decision making, situational conditions had an effect for the abstract variant, with individual testing having the fewest hasty decision makers (DtD1: Mann–Whitney U = 2137.5, p = 0.02; DtD1-2: Mann–Whitney U = 2017.5, p < 0.01), but not for the cover story variant. Our results suggest that the abstract variant is more susceptible to test conditions, especially if a categorisation is used to classify hasty decisions. This does not imply that the cover story variant is better suited to capturing jumping to conclusions behaviour, but highlights the importance of mirroring the situational conditions between different samples. We recommend that testing conditions should be fully disclosed.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKlevjer K, Pfuhl G. The Effect of Situational Experiment Conditions on Hasty Decision Making in the ‘Beads Task’ . Brain Sciences. 2023;13(359)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2131211
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/brainsci13020359
dc.identifier.issn2076-3425
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/28917
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalBrain Sciences
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 262338en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleThe Effect of Situational Experiment Conditions on Hasty Decision Making in the ‘Beads Task’en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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