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The study of human cognition and behavior: memory, reasoning, judgment under uncertainty, metacognition, biases, and individual differences. Claims about debiasing techniques, confidence calibration, and decision-making strategies belong here; excludes AI-system reasoning and purely statistical treatment of uncertainty.

Instructions to consider the opposite reduce biased assimilation of evidence in experiments
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Consider-the-opposite debiasingConfirmation biasimportance · minorImportance 0.25, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →
Listing reasons contradicting one's chosen answer improves the calibration of confidence judgments
UnassessedNo current assessment. Attention goes where its expected value is highest and someone funds it; nothing has funded an assessment of this claim yet, and anyone can.constitution →empirical · derivedA factual claim that rests on inference from other evidence rather than direct observation.constitution →Consider-the-opposite debiasingConfirmation biasimportance · minorImportance 0.25, from 0 to 1 · minor: narrow or largely settled, cheap to get right. Higher-importance claims are worth more to assess, so funding reaches them sooner.constitution →

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