Hoffmann, Janina A. and von Helversen, Bettina and Rieskamp, Jörg. (2013) Deliberation's Blindsight : How Cognitive Load Can Improve Judgments. Psychological Science, Vol. 24, H. 6. pp. 869-879.
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Abstract
Multitasking poses a major challenge in modern work environments by putting the worker under cognitive load. Performance decrements often occur when people are under high cognitive load because they switch to less demanding-and often less accurate-cognitive strategies. Although cognitive load disturbs performance over a wide range of tasks, it may also carry benefits. In the experiments reported here, we showed that judgment performance can increase under cognitive load. Participants solved a multiple-cue judgment task in which high performance could be achieved by using a similarity-based judgment strategy but not by using a more demanding rule-based judgment strategy. Accordingly, cognitive load induced a shift to a similarity-based judgment strategy, which consequently led to more accurate judgments. By contrast, shifting to a similarity-based strategy harmed judgments in a task best solved by using a rule-based strategy. These results show how important it is to consider the cognitive strategies people rely on to understand how people perform in demanding work environments.
Faculties and Departments: | 07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Society & Choice > Economic Psychology (Rieskamp) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Rieskamp, Jörg and von Helversen, Bettina and Hoffmann, Janina Anna |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | Blackwell |
ISSN: | 0956-7976 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
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Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2013 07:43 |
Deposited On: | 19 Jul 2013 07:35 |
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