Who benefits from debiasing?

2025/05/05 by Esther Boissin, Gordon Pennycook · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Auction Theory and Applications #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106166

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Discussions

• Debiasing interventions, such as educating people about base rate neglect, can improve reasoning, but for whom do these interventions work? This paper suggests that it's more about the motivation to [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]