A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect

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  • who: Samuel A. Barnett from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey have published the research work: A Pragmatic Account of the Weak Evidence Effect, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 18/07/2022
  • what: The authors extend recent probabilistic models of recursive social reasoning to allow for persuasive goals and show that the model provides a pragmatic account for why weakly favorable arguments may backfire a phenomenon known as the weak evidence effect. Although it was not the focus of the current study, the authors also presented a second piece of evidence . . .

     

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