Magda del Río (@magdadelrio.bsky.social)

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... Thread below...

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Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings 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... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.11.622934v1