Neurowetenschappelijke mechanismen van cognitieve bias
report
Cognitive heuristics and biases (H&B) have powerful influence on judgement and decisionmaking and thereby on human behavior. These (mainly unconscious) tendencies may thus also have high impact in many military situations and circumstances. This counts for the own organization as well as for direct opponents and neutral actors, such as coalition partners, home front, media and political and governmental participants. A thourough insight into the underlying mechanisms of H&B may thus provide a basis for the development of methods for protection of the own forces against the disadvantages of H&B bases irrationality as well as for deliberate influencing, or manipulation, of other (opponent) parties in the military arena. In the present report, current knowledge and explanations of human (ir)rationality are critically discussed and supplemented on the basis of neuroscientific insights into the basic characteristics of neural information processing. Next, we present a new neuro-evolutionary framework for H&B that provides real explanations and a categorisation of H&B on the basis of neuroscientific and evolutionary mechanismes and principles. Finally some theoretical and practical implications of the results are described related to behavior influence in the military.
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TNO Identifier
573551
Publisher
TNO
Collation
87 p. (incl. bijlage)
Place of publication
Soesterberg