Decision making in the digital world: Does watching video or reading text affect accuracy ? Cover Image

Вземане на решения в дигиталния свят: Отразява ли се гледането на видео или четенето на текст върху прецизността?
Decision making in the digital world: Does watching video or reading text affect accuracy ?

Author(s): Yasen Ynev, Daniela Andonova, Ivan Aleksandrov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Individual Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychology of Self, Clinical psychology, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Decision-making; Information perception; Diagnostic accuracy.

Summary/Abstract: The world of today is flooded with information which we need to process and make decisions. Does it matter if we perceive this information as text or video? Using video fragments of real-life diagnostic interviews and text representations with the same content we compared the diagnostic classification accuracy of experienced and novice clinical psychologists. Confidence was also examined. We noted lack of difference in accuracy between cases presented as video or text, and also, lack of difference between experienced and novice groups. What seemed to alter accuracy was the case itself, not its presentation (as text or video). Confidence was found to be positively correlated with accuracy. We conclude that text vignettes are as good case descriptions as videos.

  • Issue Year: 26/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 229-238
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English