Chia-Pi Chang
Ju-Whei Lee
Department of Psychology Chung Yuan University
The main purpose of the present study is to confirm that the procedure of reason generation, previously adopted to reduce hindsight bias in general-knowledge questions, is applicable to future events. A 2 (question type: general-knowledge questions/future events) x 3 (reason type: pro/con/no reason) mixed factorial design is employed in the present study. The results show that the procedure of reason generation is applicable not only to general knowledge questions but also to future events. However, only the generation of the con reason can effectively reduce hindsight bias. The generation of the pro reason has no such effect.
Keywords: hindsight bias, debiasing procedure, reason generation, general-knowledge questions, future events