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Lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 has recently been a hot topic of the political debate in many democratic countries. This study investigated whether the voting quality of 16-17-year-olds is inferior to that of the voting population. Shortly before the 2021 German federal election, samples, representative for age and gender, indicated personal...
Many decisions require prioritising relevant over less relevant information. In risky environments, probabilities provide the weights to use information according to their relevance. We investigated whether participants with high ability and motivation are able to use probabilities effectively for prioritising relevant information and, therefore, d...
Study 1 contributes to the sparse empirical research on decision‐making across the lifespan by presenting a direct comparison of middle‐aged children's (N = 40; fourth grade), younger adults' (N = 40; 20–39 years), and older adults' (N = 40; 62–82 years) adaptive decision‐making. Participants played a non‐probabilistic, multi‐attribute, information...
“Take The Best” is a fast and frugal strategy that requires focus upon the most important information dimensions when making decisions, and the ability to ignore other, less crucial factors. Two studies are used to investigate whether children take up the Take The Best heuristic following child-friendly strategy prompting. The results show that chi...
We investigated whether children prefer feedback over stated probabilistic information in decision making. 6-year-olds’, 9-year-olds’, and adults’ making was examined in an environment where probabilistic information about choice outcome had to be actively searched (N = 166) or was available without search (N = 183). Probabilistic information was p...
Weighted-additive (WADD) strategies require decision makers to integrate multiple values weighted by their relevance. From what age can children make choices in line with such a WADD-strategy? We compare multi-attribute decisions of children (6–7; 8–10; 11–12-year-olds) with adults in an open information-board environment without pre-decisional inf...
Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision makin...
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the role of implicit, unconscious thinking in creativity and problem solving, the interaction of intuition and analytic thinking, and the relationship bet...
Adaptive decision making in probabilistic environments requires individuals to use probabilities as weights in predecisional information searches and/or when making subsequent choices. Within a child-friendly computerized environment (Mousekids), we tracked 205 children's (105 children 5-6 years of age and 100 children 9-10 years of age) and 103 ad...
We studied risky choices in preschoolers, elementary schoolers, and adults using an information board paradigm crossing two options with two cues that differ in their probability of making valid predictions (p=.50 vs. p=.83). We also varied the presence of normatively irrelevant information. Choice patterns indicate that preschoolers were able to b...