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AI-assisted discovery of unknown cognitive biases: Humans systematically undervalue information under complexity

2026-04-23

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<p>Biases in how people seek and integrate information can lead to negative consequences across domains ranging from health to finance. It is thus crucial to identify common biases. Traditionally, researchers generate hypotheses regarding potential biases and then empirically test them. While successful, important biases may go undetected as researchers have limited cognitive resources and can be blind to their ow...

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Literature Corpus work: 423aba4a-4c07-5bb1-940b-e3fce79acff1
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vabzc_v1

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