People Need a Few Seconds to Be Random

Abstract excerpt

<p>Behaving randomly can be advantageous: it prevents others from capitalizing on patterns in our behavior. Unfortunately, the consensus from sixty years of psychological research is that people cannot do so: when attempting to be random, people’s responses exhibit systematic patterns. Random phenomena, however, are not instantaneously random. They require sufficient time between observations (e.g. the weather) or...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Biological Evolution
• Data Analysis
• Genetics, Population
• Genotype
• Mental Health
• Phenotype
• Smartphone

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Literature Corpus work

22ddfd85-0eec-5373-81c2-f7a2196b9cde

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/awg9j_v1