Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task Export

@article{citeulike:346967, abstract = {A fundamental assumption of theories of decision-making is that we detect mismatches between intention and outcome, adjust our behavior in the face of error, and adapt to changing circumstances. Is this always the case? We investigated the relation between intention, choice, and introspection. Participants made choices between presented face pairs on the basis of attractiveness, while we covertly manipulated the relationship between choice and outcome that they experienced. Participants failed to notice conspicuous mismatches between their intended choice and the outcome they were presented with, while nevertheless offering introspectively derived reasons for why they chose the way they did. We call this effect choice blindness.}, author = {Johansson, Petter and Hall, Lars and Sikstrom, Sverker and Olsson, Andreas}, citeulike-article-id = {346967}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111709}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/310/5745/116}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16210542}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16210542}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5745/116}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://dx.doi.org.monstera.cc.columbia.edu:2048/10.1126/science.1111709}, day = {07}, doi = {10.1126/science.1111709}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {confabulation, decision-making, intention}, month = {October}, number = {5745}, pages = {116--119}, posted-at = {2008-10-20 16:54:00}, priority = {2}, title = {Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111709}, volume = {310}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:346967 L3 - citeulike-article-id:346967 N2 - A fundamental assumption of theories of decision-making is that we detect mismatches between intention and outcome, adjust our behavior in the face of error, and adapt to changing circumstances. Is this always the case? We investigated the relation between intention, choice, and introspection. Participants made choices between presented face pairs on the basis of attractiveness, while we covertly manipulated the relationship between choice and outcome that they experienced. Participants failed to notice conspicuous mismatches between their intended choice and the outcome they were presented with, while nevertheless offering introspectively derived reasons for why they chose the way they did. We call this effect choice blindness. IS - 5745 JF - Science EP - 119 TI - Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task VL - 310 SP - 116 KW - confabulation KW - decision-making KW - intention AU - Johansson, Petter AU - Hall, Lars AU - Sikstrom, Sverker AU - Olsson, Andreas PY - 2005/10/07/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1111709 ER -