Search Results - subject:"less-is-more effect"

Evidence for and against a simple interpretation of the less-is-more effect

Lee, Michael D. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 10 (2015) 1, pp. 18-33

The less-is-more effect predicts that people can be more accurate making paired-comparison decisions when they have … decisions based on partial knowledge of both alternatives. I present new data that directly test for the less-is-more effect … group-level analysis of these data provides evidence in favor of the less-is-more effect: there is strong evidence people …

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Less-is-more effects without the recognition heuristic

Beaman, C. Philip; Smith, Philip T.; Frosch, Caren A.; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 4, pp. 258-271

Inferences consistent with ``recognition-based'' decision-making may be drawn for various reasons other than recognition alone. We demonstrate that, for 2-alternative forced-choice decision tasks, less-is-more effects (reduced performance with additional learning) are not restricted to...

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