Demonstrating the effect of context on order effects for an army air defense task using the patriot simulator
✍ Scribed by Leonard Adelman; Terry A. Bresnick; Matthew Christian; James Gualtieri; David Minionis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3257
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✦ Synopsis
The results reported herein support the hypotheses that (1) situation-speci®c, contextual features of a task can cause people to use explanation-based reasoning (Pennington and Hastie, 1993) ; (2) such reasoning can cause experienced personnel, both individually and in two-person teams, to reinterpret the meaning of the same information when it is presented in two dierent ordered sequences; and (3) the result will be primacy or recency (or no) eects depending on whether the most recent con¯icting information can be explained away or not, respectively. These results extend the belief-adjustment model proposed by Hogarth and Einhorn (1992), which does not address information reinterpretations, and always predicts recency eects for an evaluation task with a short series of con¯icting information. More generally, the results demonstrate the importance of situation-speci®c, contextual features in understanding judgment processes.