The use of recognition in group decision-making

@article{citeulike:1672780, abstract = {Goldstein and Gigerenzer (2002) [Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic. Psychological Review, 109 (1), 75-90] found evidence for the use of the recognition heuristic. For example, if an individual recognizes only one of two cities, they tend to infer that the recognized city has a larger population. A prediction that follows is that of the less-is-more effect: Recognizing fewer cities leads, under certain conditions, to more accurate inferences than recognizing more cities. We extend the recognition heuristic to group decision-making by developing majority and lexicographic models of how recognition information is used by groups. We formally show when the less-is-more effect is predicted in groups and we present a study where three-member groups performed the population comparison task. Several aspects of our data indicate that members who can use the recognition heuristic are, not in all but in most cases, more influential in the group decision process than members who cannot use the heuristic. We also observed the less-is-more effect and found that models assuming that members who can use the recognition heuristic are more influential better predict when the effect occurs.}, author = {Reimer, Torsten and Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V. }, citeulike-article-id = {1672780}, doi = {10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.06.004}, journal = {Cognitive Science}, keywords = {decision-making, heuristics, social-learning}, month = {}, number = {6}, pages = {1009--1029}, posted-at = {2007-09-19 02:59:04}, priority = {5}, title = {The use of recognition in group decision-making}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.06.004}, volume = {28}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1672780 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1672780 TI - The use of recognition in group decision-making JF - Cognitive Science VL - 28 IS - 6 SP - 1009 EP - 1029 N2 - Goldstein and Gigerenzer (2002) [Models of ecological rationality: The recognition heuristic. Psychological Review, 109 (1), 75-90] found evidence for the use of the recognition heuristic. For example, if an individual recognizes only one of two cities, they tend to infer that the recognized city has a larger population. A prediction that follows is that of the less-is-more effect: Recognizing fewer cities leads, under certain conditions, to more accurate inferences than recognizing more cities. We extend the recognition heuristic to group decision-making by developing majority and lexicographic models of how recognition information is used by groups. We formally show when the less-is-more effect is predicted in groups and we present a study where three-member groups performed the population comparison task. Several aspects of our data indicate that members who can use the recognition heuristic are, not in all but in most cases, more influential in the group decision process than members who cannot use the heuristic. We also observed the less-is-more effect and found that models assuming that members who can use the recognition heuristic are more influential better predict when the effect occurs. KW - decision-making KW - heuristics KW - social-learning AU - Reimer, Torsten AU - Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos PY - 2004/0// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.06.004 ER -