Seeking positive experiences can produce illusory correlations

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-324

  Denrell, Jerker ^b   Le Mens, Gaël ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive behavior; Halo effect; Reinforcement learning; Sampling; Stereotype formation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HALO EFFECT; ILLUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SAMPLE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STEREOTYPY;

ALGORITHMS; ATTITUDE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 79953324111     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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