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Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert
Contrary to what common sense makes us believe, deliberation without attention has recently been suggested to produce better decisions in complex situations than deliberation with attention. Based on differences between cognitive processes of experts and novices, we hypothesized that experts make in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20354726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0281-8 |
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author | Mamede, Sílvia Schmidt, Henk G. Rikers, Remy M. J. P. Custers, Eugene J. F. M. Splinter, Ted A. W. van Saase, Jan L. C. M. |
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description | Contrary to what common sense makes us believe, deliberation without attention has recently been suggested to produce better decisions in complex situations than deliberation with attention. Based on differences between cognitive processes of experts and novices, we hypothesized that experts make in fact better decisions after consciously thinking about complex problems whereas novices may benefit from deliberation-without-attention. These hypotheses were confirmed in a study among doctors and medical students. They diagnosed complex and routine problems under three conditions, an immediate-decision condition and two delayed conditions: conscious thought and deliberation-without-attention. Doctors did better with conscious deliberation when problems were complex, whereas reasoning mode did not matter in simple problems. In contrast, deliberation-without-attention improved novices’ decisions, but only in simple problems. Experts benefit from consciously thinking about complex problems; for novices thinking does not help in those cases. |
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spelling | pubmed-29384452010-10-05 Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert Mamede, Sílvia Schmidt, Henk G. Rikers, Remy M. J. P. Custers, Eugene J. F. M. Splinter, Ted A. W. van Saase, Jan L. C. M. Psychol Res Original Article Contrary to what common sense makes us believe, deliberation without attention has recently been suggested to produce better decisions in complex situations than deliberation with attention. Based on differences between cognitive processes of experts and novices, we hypothesized that experts make in fact better decisions after consciously thinking about complex problems whereas novices may benefit from deliberation-without-attention. These hypotheses were confirmed in a study among doctors and medical students. They diagnosed complex and routine problems under three conditions, an immediate-decision condition and two delayed conditions: conscious thought and deliberation-without-attention. Doctors did better with conscious deliberation when problems were complex, whereas reasoning mode did not matter in simple problems. In contrast, deliberation-without-attention improved novices’ decisions, but only in simple problems. Experts benefit from consciously thinking about complex problems; for novices thinking does not help in those cases. Springer-Verlag 2010-03-31 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2938445/ /pubmed/20354726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0281-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Mamede, Sílvia Schmidt, Henk G. Rikers, Remy M. J. P. Custers, Eugene J. F. M. Splinter, Ted A. W. van Saase, Jan L. C. M. Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title | Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title_full | Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title_fullStr | Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title_full_unstemmed | Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title_short | Conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
title_sort | conscious thought beats deliberation without attention in diagnostic decision-making: at least when you are an expert |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20354726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0281-8 |
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