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Authors: | Imhoff, Roland Barker, Paul |
Title: | Connecting the dots : Nonlinear patterns in the presence of symbolic and nonsymbolic numerical standards |
Online publication date: | 13-Mar-2024 |
Year of first publication: | 2023 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | Much like other social and nonsocial evaluations, estimates of numerical quantities are susceptible to comparative influences. However, numerical representations can take either a nonsymbolic (e.g., a grouping of dots) or a symbolic numerical form (e.g., Hindu–Arabic numerals), which each produce comparative biases in opposite directions. The current work takes a fine-grained curve fitting approach across a wide range of values to the investigation of their potential nonlinear influence in the context of a numerical estimation task. A series of 3 experiments (N = 1,613) showed how nonsymbolic standards produce linear contrastive patterns (Study 1), whereas symbolic numerical anchors show a cubic assimilative effect with a leveling off in strength for more extreme standards (Study 2). Sequential contrast from the previous patterns and assimilation to the previous response were found to be present and additive in the presence of both representations but were larger in absence of the symbolic numerical anchors (Study 3). |
DDC: | 150 Psychologie 150 Psychology |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10188 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Document type specification: | Scientific article |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Judgment and decision making 19 |
Pages or article number: | e34 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher place: | Cambridge |
Issue date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 1930-2975 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1017/jdm.2023.31 |
Appears in collections: | DFG-491381577-H |
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