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ecj-1953	Baldi, Pier Luigi	Experimental data on authority of source bias in decision making	2013	1	.pdf	application/pdf	611	34	53	[Emergency Care Journal 2013; 9:e24] Experimental data on authority of source bias in decision making Pier Luigi Baldi Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy Dear Editor, The psychological approach to reasoning and decision making has shown i) the restrict- ed cognitive resources available to people (see for example, the notion of bounded rationality by Simon1); ii) the inferential errors attributa- ble, at least partly, to limited working memory capacity2; iii) the use of heuristics, i.e. strate- gies which allow saving cognitive resources by simplifying elaboration yet at the risk of bias- es, etc. These errors, or distortions, do not appear to be negligible but rather important and recurring behavioral anomalies.3,4 Moreover, since 1950s several psychological studies have highlighted the role of emotions in decision making, a role that has been evi- denced also by the neurosciences.5 The three experimental studies presented here were aimed to evaluate the influence of authority of source on decision making, each one examining the following fields: logic, grammar, and figurative art.	cache/ecj-1953.pdf	txt/ecj-1953.txt