@inproceedings{33287dded0a24e238e513636bf27b8f4,
title = "Are Biases When Making Causal Interventions Related to Biases in Belief Updating?",
abstract = "People often make decisions with the goal of gaining information which can help reduce their uncertainty. However, recent work has suggested that people sometimes do not select the most diagnostic information queries available to them. A critical aspect of information search decisions is evaluating how obtaining a piece of information will alter a learner's beliefs (e.g., a piece of information that is redundant with what is already known is useless). This suggests a close relationship between information seeking decisions on one hand, and belief updating on the other. This paper explores the deeper relationship between these two constructs in a causal intervention learning task. We find that patterns in belief updating biases are predictive of decision making patterns in tasks where people must make interventions learn about the structure of a causal system.",
keywords = "causal interventions, causal learning, hypothesis testing, information search",
author = "Anna Coenen and Gureckis, {Todd M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments This work was supported by grant number BCS-1255538 from the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation “Varieties of Understanding” project, and a John S. Mc-Donnell Foundation Scholar Award. Funding Information: This work was supported by grant number BCS-1255538 from the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation “Varieties of Understanding” project, and a John S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.; 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015 ; Conference date: 23-07-2015 Through 25-07-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "411--416",
editor = "Noelle, {David C.} and Rick Dale and Anne Warlaumont and Jeff Yoshimi and Teenie Matlock and Jennings, {Carolyn D.} and Maglio, {Paul P.}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015",
}