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Autobiographical memory biases in social anxiety.

Individuals with social anxiety preferentially attend to threatening social information during and following social events. As such, cognitive models predict that social anxiety should be associated with biases in the recall of social events. However, initial experimental studies examining this assumption either failed to find such biases or found only weak evidence for an autobiographical memo...

Communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants.

Human teaching, a highly specialized form of cooperative information transmission, depends not only on the presence of benevolent communicators in the environment, but also on the preparedness of the students to learn from communication when it is addressed to them. We tested whether 9-month-old human infants can distinguish between communicative and noncommunicative social contexts and whether...

Motivational biases in memory for emotions

Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing∗

This paper explores the connection between bounded memory and biases in information processing. An infinitely-lived decision maker receives a sequence of signals which provide partial information about the true “state of the world”; when this process terminates, which happens with probability η after each signal, he makes a decision and earns a payoff which depends on the true state. The agent ...

Streak Biases in Decision Making: Data and a Memory Model

Streaks of past outcomes, for example of gains or losses in the stock market, are one source of information for a decision maker trying to predict the next outcome in the series. We examine how prediction biases based on streaks change as a function of length of the current streak. Participants experienced a sequence of 150 flips of a simulated coin. On the first of a streak of heads, participa...