Can Cognitive Biases during Consumer Health Information Searches Be Reduced to Improve Decision Making?
Author(s) -
Annie Lau,
Enrico Coiera
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m2557
Subject(s) - anchoring , debiasing , computer science , test (biology) , session (web analytics) , interface (matter) , information retrieval , order (exchange) , search engine , psychology , world wide web , social psychology , paleontology , bubble , finance , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , economics , biology
To test whether the anchoring and order cognitive biases experienced during search by consumers using information retrieval systems can be corrected to improve the accuracy of, and confidence in, answers to health-related questions.
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