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The Impact of Cognitive Biases on Professionals' Decision-Making frontiersin.org 22 facts
claimStudies that review past medical errors to identify cognitive biases are vulnerable to hindsight bias because reviewers are aware that an error was committed, making them prone to identify biases ex post, according to Wears and Nemeth (2007).
claimHindsight bias can cause managers to distort their predictions and evaluations of initial decisions, according to research by Bukszar and Connolly (1988).
claimGuthrie et al. (2001) reported that federal magistrate judges were susceptible to cognitive biases, including anchoring, framing, hindsight bias, inverse fallacy, and egocentric bias, though to varying extents.
referenceResearch in the field of medicine regarding cognitive biases includes studies by Blumenthal-Barby and Krieger (2015) (review), Croskerry (2003) (narrative), Crowley et al. (2013) (empirical), Dawson and Arkes (1987) (narrative), Detmer et al. (1978) (narrative), Elstein (1999) (narrative), Graber et al. (2005) (empirical), Klein (2005) (narrative), Mamede et al. (2010) (availability bias, empirical), Ogdie et al. (2012) (empirical), Redelmeier (2005) (narrative), Saposnik et al. (2016) (review), Schmitt and Elstein (1988) (narrative), Schnapp et al. (2018) (empirical), Stiegler and Ruskin (2012) (review), Wears and Nemeth (2007) (hindsight bias, narrative), and Zwaan et al. (2017) (empirical).
claimIn a 2001 study by Guthrie et al., judges demonstrated hindsight bias when presented with a hypothetical appeal case; those informed of the actual outcome of the court of appeals were significantly more likely to identify that outcome as the most likely to have occurred.
referencePeer and Gamliel (2013) reviewed how cognitive biases intervene in the judicial process, specifically confirmation and hindsight bias during hearings, the inability to ignore inadmissible evidence during rulings, and anchoring effects during sentencing.
claimHindsight bias is the propensity to perceive events as being more predictable once they have occurred, as defined by Fischhoff (1975).
referenceResearch in the field of law regarding cognitive biases includes studies by Berlin and Hendrix (1998) (hindsight bias, narrative), Bystranowski et al. (2021) (anchoring effect, review), Casper et al. (1989) (hindsight bias, empirical), Chapman and Bornstein (1996) (anchoring effect, empirical), Cheney et al. (1989) (hindsight bias, empirical), Englich et al. (2005) (anchoring effect, empirical), Englich et al. (2006) (anchoring effect, empirical), Enough and Mussweiler (2001) (anchoring effect, empirical), Findley and Scott (2006) (confirmation bias, theoretical), Guthrie et al. (2001) (empirical), Guthrie et al. (2007) (empirical), Guthrie et al. (2002) (narrative), Harley (2007) (hindsight bias, review), Hastie et al. (1999) (anchoring effect, empirical), Helm et al. (2016) (empirical), Hinsz and Indahl (1995) (anchoring effect, empirical), Kamin and Rachlinski (1995) (hindsight bias, empirical), LaBine and LaBine (1996) (hindsight bias, empirical), Lidén et al. (2019) (confirmation bias, empirical), O’Brien (2009) (confirmation bias, empirical), Oeberst and Goeckenjan (2016) (hindsight bias, review), Peer and Gamliel (2013) (narrative), Rachlinski and Wistrich (2017) (narrative), Rachlinski (2018) (framing effect, empirical), Rachlinski et al. (2011) (hindsight bias, empirical), Rachlinski et al. (2015) (anchoring effect, empirical), and Robbennolt and Studebaker (1999) (anchoring effect, empirical).
referenceBukszar and Connolly (1988) investigated the hindsight bias and its impact on strategic choice, specifically highlighting problems in learning from experience.
referenceResearch in management decision-making has documented various cognitive biases, including overconfidence (Ben-David et al. 2013; Malmendier and Tate 2005, 2008; Moore et al. 2007), hindsight bias (Bukszar and Connolly 1988), the framing effect (Hodgkinson et al. 1999), the anchoring effect (Joyce and Biddle 1981), and blind spot bias (Zajac and Bazerman 1991).
claimHindsight bias is the tendency for people to perceive events as being more predictable once they have already occurred.
claimHindsight bias, where individuals perceive outcomes as more foreseeable than they were because they already know the outcome, is well-documented in liability cases.
claimMore severe outcomes tend to produce a larger hindsight bias, a phenomenon particularly noted in medical malpractice litigation.
claimSchwenk (1988) identified ten heuristics and biases of potential significance in strategic decision-making: availability, selective perception, illusory correlation, conservatism, law of small numbers, regression bias, wishful thinking, illusion of control, logical reconstruction, and hindsight bias.
measurementGuthrie et al. (2001) surveyed 167 federal magistrate judges to assess the impact of five cognitive biases—anchoring, framing, hindsight bias, inverse fallacy, and egocentric bias—on their decisions regarding litigation problems.
claimJurors are susceptible to hindsight bias just as much as lay persons, despite legal requirements to ignore outcome information when evaluating foreseeability.
referenceElizabeth Harley published 'Hindsight bias in legal decision making' in Social Cognition in 2007.
claimAnchoring, hindsight bias, and confirmation bias are documented as affecting judicial decision-making.
claimJurors assessing liability or negligence in retrospect tend to rate the negligence of a defendant higher because they possess knowledge of the negative outcome, making the outcome seem more foreseeable.
referenceKamin and Rachlinski (1995) explored the 'hindsight bias' by demonstrating that individuals struggle to separate ex post knowledge from ex ante perspectives when determining liability.
claimIn a 2011 study published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, J. J. Rachlinski, C. Guthrie, and A. J. Wistrich examined the relationship between probable cause, probability, and hindsight bias.
claimIn a 2016 study published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, A. Oeberst and I. Goeckenjan provided evidence that hindsight bias affects judges' negligence assessments.
Biases in Behavioral Finance - World Scholars Review worldscholarsreview.org Sep 15, 2024 8 facts
claimBiais and Weber (2009) found that hindsight bias is positively correlated with risk perception and investment performance.
claimEmotional biases, such as herding bias, loss aversion, house money effect, mental accounting, recency bias, regret aversion bias, framing effect, hindsight bias, representative bias, and the endowment effect, are driven by feelings and emotions.
referenceMetilda (2013) explored the significance of hindsight bias in investor decision-making.
claimHussain et al. (2013) studied hindsight bias in asset selection and sign of return effects among bank financial managers, stock market investors, and finance students, finding that stock market investors were highly exposed to hindsight bias in asset selection, while bank financial managers showed significant exposure in sign of return effects.
claimHindsight bias is defined as the tendency to claim current events were predictable even though they were completely unpredictable in the past.
referenceHussain, Ahmad, and Ali (2013) published 'Hindsight Bias and Investment Decisions Making empirical evidence from an emerging financial market' in the International Journal of Research Studies in Management, which provides empirical evidence on the impact of hindsight bias on investment decisions in emerging markets.
claimKudryavtsev and Cohen (2011) investigated the influence of hindsight bias on men and women, finding that while all participants were affected, women experienced a heavier influence of hindsight bias.
claimMetilda (2013) concluded that hindsight bias prevents investors from thinking rationally and leads to excessive risk-taking, which puts customer portfolios in dangerous circumstances.
The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science link.springer.com Jun 1, 2016 1 fact
claimPhenomena such as hindsight bias and confirmation bias are considered features of reason rather than instances of flawed reasoning.