Justifying the judgment process affects neither judgment accuracy, nor strategy use

Hoffmann, Janina A.; Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; von Helversen, Bettina

Justifying the judgment process affects neither judgment accuracy, nor strategy use

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2017

Authors

Hoffmann, Janina A.

Gaissmaier, Wolfgang

von Helversen, Bettina

Publication type

Journal article

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Published

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Judgment and Decision Making ; 12 (2017), 6. - pp. 627-641. - eISSN 1930-2975

Abstract

Decision quality is often evaluated based on whether decision makers can adequately explain the decision process. Accountability often improves judgment quality because decision makers weigh and integrate information more thoroughly, but it could also hurt judgment processes by disrupting retrieval of previously encountered cases. We investigated to what degree process accountability motivates decision makers to shift from retrieval of past exemplars to rule-based integration processes. This shift may hinder accurate judgments in retrieval-based configural judgment tasks (Experiment 1) but may improve accuracy in elemental multiple-cue judgment tasks requiring weighing and integrating information (Experiment 2). In randomly selected trials, participants had to justify their judgments. Process accountability neither changed how accurately people made a judgment, nor the judgment strategies. Justifying the judgment process only decreased confidence in trials involving a justification. Overall, these results imply that process accountability may impact judgment quality less than expected. We discuss limiting procedural variations.

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150 Psychology

Keywords

Judgment; Accountability; Cognitive processes

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HOFFMANN, Janina A., Wolfgang GAISSMAIER, Bettina VON HELVERSEN, 2017. Justifying the judgment process affects neither judgment accuracy, nor strategy use. In: Judgment and Decision Making. 12(6), pp. 627-641. eISSN 1930-2975

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@article{Hoffmann2017Justi-40557,
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  title={Justifying the judgment process affects neither judgment accuracy, nor strategy use},
  url={http://journal.sjdm.org/17/17411/jdm17411.pdf},
  number={6},
  volume={12},
  journal={Judgment and Decision Making},
  pages={627--641},
  author={Hoffmann, Janina A. and Gaissmaier, Wolfgang and von Helversen, Bettina}
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