2026-10-05 · paper-digest
Höhs et al.: Reasons for tend to look alike, reasons against scatter — Fukai Reads
A peer-reviewed paper by Höhs, Rebholz and Hütter (University of Tübingen) in Judgment and Decision Making (23 July 2026). Three preregistered experiments (623 participants in total) compared reasons for and against decisions. Reasons for resembled each other and felt more relevant; reasons against were more scattered and felt more novel. In Experiment 3, the more consistent the reasons against looked, the more people moved toward not doing it.
