Uncertainty and Decision Making

How do people change their mind and hearts? Modeling opinions and their spread in social groups allows us to understand how cognitive, social and network factors can affect opinion dynamics. Machines can learn people’s opinions and adapt to maximize their persuasiveness. How do machines and people interact? How do misinformation, polarization or intelligence emerge from this interaction?

Relevant publications:

Pescetelli, N., & Yeung, N. (2022). Benefits of spontaneous confidence alignment between dyad members. Collective Intelligence, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/26339137221126915

Pesetelli, N., Hauperich, A.-K., Yeung, N. (2021) Confidence, advice seeking and changes of mind in decision making. Cognition 215, Oct 2021, 104810

Pescetelli, N., and Yeung, N. (2021) The role of decision confidence in advice-taking and trust formation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 150(3):507-526

Pescetelli, N., & Yeung, N. (2020). The effects of recursive communication dynamics on belief updating. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1931), 20200025.