TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Deliberation's blindsight: how cognitive load can improve judgments
JO  - Psychological science
A1  - Hoffmann, Janina A.
A1  - von Helversen, Bettina
A1  - Rieskamp, Jörg
SP  - 869
EP  - 879
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
N2  - Multitasking poses a major challenge in modern work environments by putting the worker under cognitive load. Performance decrements often occur when people are under high cognitive load because they switch to less demanding-and often less accurate-cognitive strategies. Although cognitive load disturbs performance over a wide range of tasks, it may also carry benefits. In the experiments reported here, we showed that judgment performance can increase under cognitive load. Participants solved a multiple-cue judgment task in which high performance could be achieved by using a similarity-based judgment strategy but not by using a more demanding rule-based judgment strategy. Accordingly, cognitive load induced a shift to a similarity-based judgment strategy, which consequently led to more accurate judgments. By contrast, shifting to a similarity-based strategy harmed judgments in a task best solved by using a rule-based strategy. These results show how important it is to consider the cognitive strategies people rely on to understand how people perform in demanding work environments.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0956-7976
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797612463581
ID  - ref1
ER  -