The Evolution of Cognitive Biases in Human Learning.
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3754499
Abstract: Cognitive biases like underinference, the hard-easy effect, and recurrently non-monotonic confidence are evolutionarily puzzling when viewed as persistent flaws in how people learn from environmental feedback. To explain these empirically robust cognitive biases from an… read more here.
Keywords: human learning; environmental feedback; cognitive biases; non monotonic ... See more keywords