New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!
TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔
Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and can reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we adopt a new p...