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Combating Information Overload and Decision Fatigue
• Roger Hall, PhD– Business Psychologist– Compass Consultation, Ltd.– Columbus – 614-799-2011– Cincinnati – 513-646-9330– www.compassconsultation.com
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Key Benefits of Attendees:• Identify why information overload is a major stressor in your
life.• Learn common mental errors that affect your decision-
making.• Identify why people resist change.• Understand which mental strategies will help you master
change.
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What do you Want?
Results
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What do you Want?
Results
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What do you Want?
Results
Actions/Behaviors
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What do you Want?
Results
Actions/Behaviors
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What do you Want?
Results
Actions/Behaviors
Thoughts/Beliefs
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The Problem
• Information Overload
• “Information Fatigue Syndrome”
– “There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
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The Problem
“We use the analogy of the computer to understand the brain, but we don’t realize that our brains aren’t wired to multitask.”
– (Larry Rosen, PhD, (March 1998), Data smog: newest culprit in brain drain, APA Monitor, p. 1.)
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The Problem
• Data Smog
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Symptoms of Data Smog.
• a. Increased mistakes.• b. Increased
misunderstanding of others.• c. Increased flawed
conclusions.• d. Increased foolish decisions.• e. Increased decisional
difficulty• f. Increased sleep disorders.
• g. Impaired concentration.• h. Weakened immune system.• i. Indigestion.• j. Heart problems.• k. Hypertension.• l. Irritability – snap at co-
workers.• m. Decreased work
productivity.
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The Problem
• Acceleration of Our Society
• We use money to give the appearance of time
• Ever increasing sense of urgency.
• Because we can, we think we should.
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The Problem
• More Choices in Our Society
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The Problem
• More Change in Work Life
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Cognitive Reactions and the Negative Emotions that Follow
• Anger
– Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – this is not easy.
• Aristotle, in Nicomanchean Ethics.
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Cognitive Reactions and the Negative Emotions that Follow
• Fear
– “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear.”
» Ambrose Redmoon
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Cognitive Reactions and the Negative Emotions that Follow
• Sadness – reliable signs– Sleep impairment– Appetite/weight disturbance (more than 5% of your body
weight without trying)– Hopelessness about the future.– Anhedonia – loss of pleasure in things that used to be
pleasurable.
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Cognitive Reactions and the Negative Emotions that Follow
– Information Overload can lead to “Learned Helplessness” which looks like depression.
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Decision making is not logical – IT IS EMOTIONAL• Presupposition: We are an inherently self deceptive
species• Janis & Mann versus Jonah Lehrer
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BUYING A NEW CAR – TWO APPROACHES
• versus
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Good Decision Making is Not Rational• Old Thinking
– Logical, non emotional decisions are better
– We follow a deductive path
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• New Thinking– Those without
emotions make worse decisions
– We decide and then come up with explanations for our decision (rationalizing)
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Good Decision Making is Not Rational• Old Thinking
– More information is better
– Thinking about your thinking is better
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• New Thinking– More information is
decreases decision quality
– Thinking about your thinking decreases decision quality
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ERRORS RESULTING FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• 4 Phases of the Judgment Process
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ERRORS RESULTING FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• 4 Phases of the Judgment Process– Encoding and Attention – What gets paid attention to
and how the information is taken in.
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ERRORS RESULTING FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• 4 Phases of the Judgment Process– Encoding and Attention – What gets paid attention to
and how the information is taken in. – Memory and Storage – how the information is retained
in the professional's brain.
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ERRORS RESULTING FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• 4 Phases of the Judgment Process– Encoding and Attention – What gets paid attention to
and how the information is taken in. – Memory and Storage – how the information is retained
in the professional’s brain. – Decision – how the professional executes the decision
based on the information encoded and stored.
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DECISION AND JUDGMENT ERRORS RESULTING FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD
• 4 Phases of the Judgment Process– Encoding and Attention – What gets paid attention to
and how the information is taken in. – Memory and Storage – how the information is retained in
the professional's brain. – Decision – how the professional executes the decision
based on the information encoded and stored. – Attribution – after the fact, the reason given for the
decision or behavior. The explanation as to why something happened.
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Encoding and Attention Errors
– Priming• The context of the event shapes
how you see the event. This is typically unconscious. You don’t know how you are encoding the information, you just do.
• “Recently and frequently accessed items come to mind more quickly than ideas that have not been activated.” (Fiske & Taylor, 1984, p 231).
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Encoding and Attention Errors • Apohenia – seeing
meaningful patterns in random data.– The Virgin Mary in a pancake,
Jesus on a piece of toast, Winnie the Pooh in the clouds, back masking, synchronicity.
– Humans see patterns when none exist.
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Memory Biases
• Zeigarnik Effect
– Incomplete tasks are remembered. Once the task is complete, the memory for the information disappears.
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Memory Biases
• Von Restorff Effect
– Events or data that “stick out” are remembered better than more frequent data.
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Memory Biases
• Fallibility
– Items in a person’s memory will be forgotten. The memories need not be traumatic, but memory is not iron clad.
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Memory Biases
• Malleability
– Items in a person’s memory can be changed by suggestion or by questioning
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Memory Biases
• Malleability
– Giving data in a question can change how a person recalls an event. In fact, in the face of video evidence, a person whose memory has been thus shaped will believe that the video evidence is incorrect.
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Memory Biases
• Leveling and Sharpening
– As a memory is recalled over and over, some details are leveled or fogged out. Other memories become sharper and, in recall, become more important to the event. In reality, they were less important at the time, but the way memory works, they seem more important over time. Likewise, other important facts and details become apparently less important (Koriat, Goldsmith, Pansky, 2000).
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Memory Biases
• Stereotypical Bias
– Memory is biased toward racial or gender stereotypes.
– Schacter (1999) reported that “black sounding” names were more likely to be remembered as the names of criminals.
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Memory Biases
• Cross Race Effect
– Members of one race have greater difficulty recalling members of another race.
– Jurors may have difficulty distinguishing the source of certain testimony if many of the witnesses are of a different race than theirs.
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Memory Biases
• Cross Race Effect• “In addition to Patel, those charged in the 34-count indictment are Dr. Paul Petre, 43, of Rochester Hills;
pharmacist Dineshkmar Patel, 33, of Canton; pharmacist Anish Bhavsar, 35, of Canton; pharmacist Ashwini Sharma, 33, of Novi; pharmacist Brijesh Rawal of Wayne County; pharmacist Pinakeen Patel, 32, of Sterling Heights; pharmacist Kartik Shah, 34, of Canton; pharmacist Viral Thaker, 30, of Findlay, Ohio; pharmacist Hiren Patel, 31, of Novi; pharmacist Miteshkumar Patel, 37, of Troy; pharmacist Lokeh Tayal, 35, of Canton; pharmacist Narendera Cheraku, 33, of Farmington Hills; accountant Chetan Gujarathi, 38, of Canton; Arpitkumar Patel, 26, of Romulus; Sumanray Raval, 54, of Farmington Hills; Harpreet Sachdeva, 38, of Canton; Ramesh Patel, 50, of Canton; Rana Naeem, 60, of Rochester Hills; podiatrist Anmy Tran, 40, of Macomb; Dr. Mark Greenbain, 69, of Farmington Hills; Dr. Mustak Vaid, 38, of Brownstown Township; psychologist and patient recruiter Sanyani Edwards, 32, of Ferndale; Komal Acharya, 27, of Farmington Hills; patient recruiter Leodis Elliott, 41, of West Bloomfield, and patient recruiter LaVar Carter, 34, of Macomb.”
• (Detroit Free Press, Metro doctors, pharmacists charged in 1 of largest drug scams in Michigan history, August 3, 2011)
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Memory Biases
• Next in Line Effect
– If speaking in turns, a person has greater difficulty recalling the content of what the person before and after him said.
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Judgmental Heuristics = Mental Shortcuts– “Cognitive Misers”
• Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
– The Representative Heuristic
– We use an example and infer that it is representative of another object
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• The Availability Heuristic. – Easy to retrieve events are
seen as representative of the whole.
– Sometimes, we mis-identify patterns because we are “looking for them.”
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
– The Attitude Heuristic• Pratkanis and Greenwald
– Your attitude affects your decision-making and problem solving
» Your attitude puts something in a favorable class or unfavorable class, so you make decisions based on that.
– The more extreme your position, the more sure you are of the factuality of something (you actually know nothing about)
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
– The Attitude Heuristic– Examples of the Attitude Heuristic:
» Halo effect » Horns effect» Physical Attractiveness Bias
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
– The Attitude Heuristic– Examples of the Attitude Heuristic:
» False Consensus Effect
» We overestimate the number of people who agree with us on any issue.
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
– The Anchoring Heuristic• The process of estimating some value by starting with some
initial value and then adjusting it to the new instance.
– The way the question is phrased anchors you to a certain estimate. The reference point anchors you to a certain perspective.
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Loss Aversion vs. Expectation of Gain Bias
– People are more loss-aversive than gains-expecting.
– Kahneman and Tversky offered people two options: Choose between an 80% chance of winning $4000, and a 20% chance of winning nothing, against a 100% chance of receiving $3000.
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Loss Aversion vs. Expectation of Gain Bias
– The people chose the 100% chance of winning $3000.
– The mathematical expectation of the first choice is higher ($4000 X .80 + $0 X .20 = $3200).
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Loss Aversion vs. Expectation of Gain Bias
– Then the people were given another forced choice: an 80% chance of losing $4000 and a 20% chance of losing nothing against a 100% chance of losing $3000.
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Loss Aversion vs. Expectation of Gain Bias
– The people usually chose the first option, even though the mathematical expectation of losses was higher.
– ($-4000 x .80 - $0 X .20 = $-3200).
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The Decision Phase – Judgmental Heuristics – Mental Shortcuts
• Overconfidence Bias
– We tend to overestimate our abilities and ignore the base rate.
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The Attribution Phase
• Actor-Observer Bias– The general idea is that the reasons you attribute for behavior is
different if you are the actor (doing the thing) or observing the thing (the observer).
– Attribution about others behavior tends to be characterological rather than situation specific
– Attributions about self tend to be situation specific and not related to stable traits.
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The Attribution Phase
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect
– The effect that people over-estimate their ability to do something. “I could do that. How hard could it be?”
– The same lack of self-insight makes people skilled in a task under-estimate the difficulty of the task for others to complete. “It’s so easy, why can’t you do it?”
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The Attribution Phase
• The Forer Effect (The Barnum Effect)
– The likelihood that bogus psychological data will be believed about a person because it comes from a credible source or printed material, even though the statements are so vague as to apply to anyone.
– The Fortune Cookie Effect, The Horoscope Effect
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DECISIONAL OVERLOAD
• When the number of choices increases, the quality of the decision decreases.
• When the decider is asked to reflect of the rationale for a decision, the quality of the decision decreases.
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Break
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Reducing Information Overload• Reducing Access to Information
– Sift and Trash
– Set Limits
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Reducing Information Overload
– Respond on your own time
– Relax while you wait for the technology
– Use the technologies that work for you
– Schedule time away from information
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Reducing Information Overload• Delegating Jobs
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Reducing Information Overload• Manage your Calendar
– To Do lists that are longer than 10 items each day will NOT be completed.
– Make each to do item an appointment in your calendar. That way you will set aside time to complete each task.
– If you don’t complete the task in the appointed time, find another time in the future to complete it and drag it there.
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Reducing Information Overload• Simplifying life outside of work, so that you are at
peak mental performance at work.– Do less.
– Use less information.
– Set aside time for rest.• Recreation is not Rest
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Reducing Information Overload• Work outside of the office
– Go to the library or a quiet restaurant (without televisions).
– There will be fewer interruptions than at work.
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Reducing Information Overload• Work during non-standard times to plow through a
project
– Early morning, late at night or on the weekends.
– Interruptions are your greatest enemy.
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• Optimism
– Martin Seligman – Learned Optimism
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Positive Cognitive Strategies
• 3 Cognitive Factors of Pessimists
Negative Events Positive Events
Permanence (when)
Permanent Temporary
Pervasiveness (where)
Universal Specific
Personalization(who)
Internal External
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B
C
D
E
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B
C Consequence
D
E
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D
E
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D Denial
E
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D DenialDistraction
E
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D DenialDistractionDeception
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D Denial, Distraction, Deception & Disputation
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• How To Combat
Inaccurate Thinking– Albert Ellis
A Adversity or Activating Event
B Belief
C Consequence
D Denial, Distraction, Deception & Disputation
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Positive Cognitive Strategies
• Long Term Perspective– No focus on the present,
but on the long term. The overcoming of the emotions of the moment with the thoughts about the long term.
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Positive Cognitive Strategies
• History will give perspective.
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Positive Cognitive Strategies• Long Term Perspective
– Marshmallow story• Delay of gratification
• Saying “no” to yourself.
• It is summed up in an old fashioned word – PRUDENCE – Defined as: the ability to anticipate unintended consequences.
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Positive Cognitive Strategies
• A Bigger View– Geologic
Perspective
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Conclusion
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References & Recommended Reading
• Aronson, Elliot, (1999). The social animal. Eighth Edition. Worth: New York.• Cialdini, Robert B., (1993). Influence: Science and practice. Third Edition. HarperCollins: New York.• Dertouzos, Michael L., (1997). What will be: How the new world of information will change our lives.
HarperEdge: San Francisco.• Freeman, Arthur & DeWolf, Rose, (1992). The 10 dumbest mistakes smart people make and how to
avoid them. HarperCollins: New York.• Fiske, Susan T., Taylor, Shelley E., (1984). Social Cognition. Random House: New York.• Garfield, Charles A., (1986). Peak performers: The new heroes of American business. Avon: New York.• Garfield, Charles A. & Zina Bennett, Hal, (1984). Peak performance: Mental Training Techniques of the
World’s Greatest Athletes. Jeremy F. Tarcher: Los Angeles.
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References & Recommended Reading
• Gilovich, Thomas, (1981). Seeing the past in the present: The effect of associations to familiar events on judgments and decisions. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 40(5), 797-808.
• Hagstrom, Robert G., (1999). The Warren Buffett portfolio: Mastering the power of the focus investment strategy. Wiley: New York.
• Kahneman, Daniel & Tversky, Amos, (Eds.), (2000). Choices, values and frames. Cambridge University Press.• Rosen, Larry, (March 1998), Data smog: newest culprit in brain drain, APA Monitor, p. 1• Seligman, Martin E. P., (1991). Learned optimism. A. A. Knopf: New York.• Shenk, David, (1997). Data smog: Surviving the information glut. Harper: San Francisco
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