11 Dec
2023
11 Dec
'23
11 a.m.
Dear All,
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center invites you to the
following talk:
Stefano Palminteri <https://sites.google.com/site/stefanopalminteri/?pli=1> (École
Normale Supérieure)
Feedback-induced dispositional changes in risk preferences
Contrary to the original normative decision-making standpoint, empirical studies have
repeatedly reported that risk preferences are affected by the disclosure of choice
outcomes (feedback). Although no consensus has yet emerged regarding the properties and
mechanisms of this effect, a widespread and intuitive hypothesis is that repeated feedback
affects risk preferences by means of a learning effect, which alters the representation of
subjective probabilities. Here, we ran a series of seven experiments (N= 538), tailored to
decipher the effects of feedback on risk preferences. Our results indicate that the
presence of feedback consistently increases risk-taking, even when the risky option is
economically less advantageous. Crucially, risk-taking increases just after the
instructions, before participants experience any feedback. These results challenge the
learning account, and advocate for a dispositional effect, induced by the mere
anticipation of feedback information. Epistemic curiosity and regret avoidance may drive
this effect in partial and complete feedback conditions, respectively.
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna)
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/91453950071?pwd=Q2RPMjRPYi9xbVErbnR0V1V6Njk1Zz09 (Meeting
ID: 914 5395 0071, Passcode: 396644)
Chair: Natalie Sebanz
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must
RSVP<mailto:socialmind@ceu.edu> to get access to the lecture hall.
Please note that we might make a video recording of the lecture, store the record for an
unlimited period of time under CEU’s Panopto account, and share the link with CEU
students, staff and faculty.
Best regards,
Andi and Fanni
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