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Confirmatory Information Seeking is Robust in Psychologists’ Diagnostic Reasoning

2024-05-13

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<p>Objectives: Across two experiments, we examined three cognitive biases (order effects, context effects, confirmatory bias) in licensed psychologists’ diagnostic reasoning. Hypotheses: Our main prediction was that psychologist-participants would seek confirming vs. disconfirming information after forming an initial diagnostic hypothesis, even given multiple opportunities to seek new information in the same case....

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Literature Corpus work: 645e7fce-a552-59c6-8574-adf483204478
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6rhck

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