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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nNumeracy and the Motivational Mind: <\/strong>
How Confidence in Numeric Ability Affects Decision Making<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nEllen Peters<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Philip H. Knight Chair and Professor<\/em>
University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nNumeracy, the ability to understand and use basic numerical concepts, is associated with diverse positive outcomes. In particular, people who are better at solving numeric problems also make better decisions and enjoy better life outcomes. Recent evidence points to the additional importance of numeric self-efficacy (i.e., confidence in one\u2019s numeric ability), which appears to be a major driver of behavior and willingness to engage with numeric tasks. People who lack numeric confidence have more negative emotional reactions to doing numeric operations, and use these negative emotions to infer that mathematically-more-difficult options have low value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UBC-DIBS<\/a> Behavioural Insights Seminar series features researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to “nudge for good”.<\/em> To subscribe or unsubscribe, email dibs@sauder.ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Ellen Peters’ research asks how confidence in numeric ability affects decision making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-ubc","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Numeracy, the ability to understand and use basic numerical concepts, is associated with diverse positive outcomes. In particular, people who are better at solving numeric problems also make better decisions and enjoy better life outcomes. Recent evidence points to the additional importance of numeric self-efficacy (i.e., confidence in one\u2019s numeric ability), which appears to be a major driver of behavior and willingness to engage with numeric tasks. People who lack numeric confidence have more negative emotional reactions to doing numeric operations, and use these negative emotions to infer that mathematically-more-difficult options have low value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UBC-DIBS<\/a> Behavioural Insights Seminar series features researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to “nudge for good”.<\/em> To subscribe or unsubscribe, email dibs@sauder.ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Ellen Peters’ research asks how confidence in numeric ability affects decision making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28042,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-ubc","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/biwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}