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Attention! Now that I’ve got your attention let me sway your judgement : irrelevant, salient stimuli and extreme outliers affect decisions on value

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Kunar, Melina A., Yu, Miao, Tsetsos, Konstantinos, Chater, Nick and Watson, Derrick G. (2015) Attention! Now that I’ve got your attention let me sway your judgement : irrelevant, salient stimuli and extreme outliers affect decisions on value. In: European Conference on Visual Perception, Liverpool, 23-27 Aug 2015

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We often have to make decisions on the basis of multiple sources of information. Previous work has found that people are able to accurately integrate values presented in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) streams to make an informed judgement of the overall value of the stream (Tsetsos, Chater & Usher, 2012). In this study we investigated whether people’s value judgements can be influenced by salience driven attentional processes. Experiments 1 and 2 examined whether the presentation of irrelevant salient red items in a stream influenced accuracy of the perceived value of the stream. The results showed that an irrelevant high or low value red item led people to judge the stream as having a higher or lower overall value, respectively, compared to when the red item was absent. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that extreme outliers presented in the RSVP stream captured attention automatically, leading to less accurate report of subsequent items in the stream. Taken together the results show that people’s valuations can be swayed by salient items and that outlier items automatically capture attention, leading to over-weighting of extreme values and less accurate judgements of value.

Item Type: Conference Item (Other)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Decision making
Official Date: 29 May 2015
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29 May 2015Accepted
Status: Peer Reviewed
Date of first compliant deposit: 11 March 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 March 2016
Conference Paper Type: Other
Title of Event: European Conference on Visual Perception
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Liverpool
Date(s) of Event: 23-27 Aug 2015

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