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Poster Session A: Tuesday, August 12, 1:30 – 4:30 pm, de Brug & E‑Hall

Adaptive attentional prioritisation of advice for decision making

Rumandeep K. Hayre¹, Arkady Konovalov, Romy Froemer¹; ¹University of Birmingham

Presenter: Rumandeep K. Hayre

When we have limited access to reliable information, we are encouraged to seek advice from others to help us make an informed decision. Yet, not all advice is good. Here, we investigated whether people can learn about adviser characteristics and prioritise advice accordingly using a collaborative decision making task combined with eye-tracking. Across two experiments, we showed that participants prioritised advice from those who were more accurate on average and those more confident in the moment. While generally gathering more information when they were most in need of advice, participants strategically sought out information on adviser confidence when advisers disagreed with one another. The current findings show that people learn about adviser characteristics and use them to prioritise the relevant information to support goal-directed decision making.

Topic Area: Reward, Value & Social Decision Making

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