Philosophy:Additive bias
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Short description: Tendency to solve problems by adding resources
Additive bias is a cognitive urge or tendency of human beings facing problems to add resources instead of taking or subtracting. According to Keith Holyoak, "Humans seeks to strengthen an argument or a manager seeks to encourage desired behaviour, thus requires a mental search for possible changes.[1]
Gabrielle Adams, Ben Converse, Andrew Hales, and Leidy Klotz conducted a series of laboratory experiments, demonstrating how, when faced with a problem, subjects were more likely to add elements rather than subtract, even where subtraction would have led to a better solution.[2][3] Their research was featured on the cover of Nature magazine when it was published in 2021.[4]
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- ↑ Holyoak, K. J. (1984). Sternberg, R. J.. ed. Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence. 2. Erlbaum. pp. 199–230.
- ↑ Klotz, Leidy (2021). Subtract: the untapped science of less (First ed.). New York: Flatiron Books. ISBN 978-1-250-24986-9.
- ↑ Adams, Gabrielle S.; Converse, Benjamin A.; Hales, Andrew H.; Klotz, Leidy E. (April 2021). "People systematically overlook subtractive changes" (in en). Nature (Nature Publishing Group) 592 (7853): 258–261. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03380-y. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 33828317. Bibcode: 2021Natur.592..258A. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y.
- ↑ "Nature - Less is more" (in en). 2021-04-06. https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/592/issues/7853.
Further reading
- Adams, Gabrielle S.; Converse, Benjamin A.; Hales, Andrew H.; Klotz, Leidy E. (8 April 2021). "People systematically overlook subtractive changes". Nature 592 (7853): 258–261. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03380-y. PMID 33828317. Bibcode: 2021Natur.592..258A.
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