Abstract thinking facilitates aggregation of information.

B Hadar, M Glickman, Y Trope… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Many situations in life (such as considering which stock to invest in, or which people to
befriend) require averaging across series of values. Here, we examined predictions derived …

Expecting to integrate additional information improves averaging of experience

G Grinfeld, M Usher, N Liberman - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Humans learn both directly, from own experience, and via social communication, from the
experience of others. They also often integrate these two sources of knowledge to make …

The averaging of numerosities: A psychometric investigation of the mental line

N Katzin, D Rosenbaum, M Usher - Attention, Perception, & …, 2021 - Springer
Humans and animals are capable of estimating and discriminating nonsymbolic
numerosities via mental representation of magnitudes—the approximate number system …

Auditory ensemble perception (summary statistics) for music scale tones by listeners with and without absolute pitch

GB Remijn, M Teramachi, K Ueda - Auditory Perception & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ensemble perception refers to our ability to summarize complex information across
individual items in a group. Ensemble perception of pitch in the auditory domain can be …

[PDF][PDF] Project Similarity Bias and Variance Neglect in Forecast Metric Evaluation

S Dekel, M Goldwater, D Lovallo, B Burns - 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Business executives often have to allocate resources across very dissimilar projects. They
use financial measures, such as Net Present Value (NPV) that simplify this difficult …