Shevaun Stocker

Who they are

The work of Shevaun Stocker reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Hindsight Bias, Consider-the-Opposite.

Key papers

Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N., & Stocker, S. L. (2002). When debiasing backfires: Accessible content and accessibility experiences in debiasing hindsight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28(3), 497-502. What it reports: Two studies in which listing many alternative outcomes felt difficult and increased hindsight bias, while listing a few felt easy and produced no significant hindsight effect.

Key ideas

Hindsight Bias: Once you know how something turned out, you lose the ability to reconstruct what you believed before you knew.

Consider-the-Opposite: A way of reducing a bias by asking how a different outcome or cause could have come about.

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