Naive optimality: Subjects' heuristics can be better motivated than experimenters' optimal models (2009)
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Abstract
Is human cognition best described by optimal models, or by adaptive but suboptimal heuristic strategies? It is frequently hard to identify which theoretical model is normatively best justified. In the context of information search, naive subjects' heuristic strategies are better motivated than some "optimal" models.
Bibliographic entry
Nelson, J. D. (2009). Naive optimality: Subjects' heuristics can be better motivated than experimenters' optimal models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 94-95. doi:10.1017/S0140525X09000405 (Full text)
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| Publication year | 2009 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09000405 View | |
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| Keywords: | behaviorconfirmationdiagnosticityinformationselection |