Diagnostic hypothesis generation and human judgment

Rick P. Thomas

doi:10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.155

Diagnostic hypothesis generation and human judgment

2008-01-01

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DOI：10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.155

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Diagnostic hypothesis-generation processes are ubiquitous in human reasoning. For example, clinicians generate disease hypotheses to explain symptoms and help guide treatment, auditors generate hypotheses for identifying sources of accounting errors, and laypeople generate hypotheses to explain patterns of information (i.e., data) in the environment. The authors introduce a general model of human judgment aimed at describing how people generate hypotheses from memory and how these hypotheses serve as the basis of probability judgment and hypothesis testing. In 3 simulation studies, the authors illustrate the properties of the model, as well as its applicability to explaining several common findings in judgment and decision making, including how errors and biases in hypothesis generation can cascade into errors and biases in judgment.

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hypothesis generation

probability judgment

subadditivity

working memory

diagnosis

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