ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2014, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 1637-1646.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2014.01637

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The Base Rate Neglect in Judgment and Decision-making LIU Chenghao; XU Fuming; SHI Yanwei; LI Yan; ZHANG Hui

LIU Chenghao; XU Fuming; SHI Yanwei; LI Yan; ZHANG Hui   

  1. (School of Psychology, Central China Normal University; Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province; Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China)
  • Received:2013-12-31 Online:2014-10-15 Published:2014-10-15
  • Contact: XU Fuming, E-mail: fumingxu@126.com

Abstract:

Base rate neglect refers to a phenomenon of bias in judgment and making decision, which results from ignoring the statistical proportion of base rate information in the judgment of related events, and only focusing on the present case information. The psychological mechanisms for this phenomenon mainly include dual-process theory and linear integration theory. There are also many factors that affect the base rate neglect, such as information characteristics, cognitive ability and so on. As to future directions, future researches are expected to deep analysis on the mechanism of the dual-process theory and put forward new perspectives based on the fuzzy trace theory, as well as promote its application on the group and public domain.

Key words: base rate neglect, dual-process theory, conflict detection, linear integration theory