Mental contamination and the debiasing problem.

By Timothy D. Wilson, David B. Centerbar, N. Brekke. 2002

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Will I Spend More in 12 Months or a Year? The Effect of Ease of Estimation and Confidence on Budget Estimates (2008, unknown): “The aim of the present study is to investigate whether the adjustment in budget estimates is an effortful correction process or some form of implicit adjustment (see Wilson et al. 2002).”
Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior: The introspection illusion as a source of the bias blind spot (2007, background): “bias. Biases typically operate nonconsciously, thereby leaving their inXuence hidden from introspection (Wilson & Brekke, 1994; Wilson, Centerbar, & Brekke, 2002 ).”
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, background): “Third, it is possible that SG and TTO responses reflect immediate affective reactions to the health state in question (Wilson et al., 2002), which in the case of some severe health states is likely to be an initial shock reaction to, or fear associated with, that state.”
Consumer Inference: A Review of Processes, Bases, and Judgment Contexts (2004, background): “Wilson et al. (2002) showed that people’s implicit theories about how unwanted persuasive messages (e.g., advertisements, innuendos, subliminal messages) influence their judgments have an important affect on how people try to de-bias or undo “mental contamination.””