title: A matter of time: antecedents of one-reason decision making based on recognition.
abstract: The notion of adaptive decision making implies that strategy selection in both inferences and preferences is driven by a trade-off between accuracy and effort. A strategy for probabilistic inferences which is particularly attractive from this point of view is the recognition heuristic (RH). It proposes that judgments rely on recognition in isolation-ignoring any further information that might be available-and thereby allows for substantial effort-reduction. Consequently, it is herein hypothesized that and tested whether increased necessity of effort-reduction-as implemented via time pressure-fosters reliance on the RH. Two experiments corroborated that this was the case, even with relatively mild time pressure. In addition, this result held even when non-compliance with the response deadline did not yield negative monetary consequences. The current investigations are among the first to tackle the largely open question of whether effort-related factors influence the reliance on heuristics in memory-based decisions.
authors: School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany. hilbig@psychologie.uni-mannheim.de
authors: Benjamin E
authors: BE
authors: Hilbig
authors: Edgar
authors: E
authors: Erdfelder
authors: Rüdiger F
authors: RF
authors: Pohl
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology