title: Grouping information for judgments.
abstract: Models of cue weighting in judgment have typically focused on how decision-makers weight cues individually. Here, the authors propose that people might recognize and weight groups of cues. They examine how judgments change when decision-makers focus on cues individually or as parts of groups. Several experiments demonstrate that people can spontaneously pack information into cue groups. Moreover, group-level weighting depends on how people assess similarity or how they think of categorical hierarchies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. akshah@princeton.edu
authors.forename: Anuj K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Oppenheimer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male