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  • Behavioral Science
  • Decision Making

Background:

  • Understanding individual differences in cognitive processes is crucial.
  • Assessing the stability and generalizability of response randomness is key to understanding decision-making behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the stability of individual differences in response randomness within a specific domain across different sessions.
  • To examine whether randomness in responding is domain-general, predicting performance across different tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Six experiments were conducted to explore response randomness.
  • Consistency coefficients across experimental blocks served as an inverse measure of randomness.
  • Correlation analyses were used to assess stability within and across domains.

Main Results:

  • Consistency coefficients were found to correlate across sessions within the same domain, indicating stable individual differences.
  • Consistency coefficients in one domain were also found to correlate with those in other domains, suggesting domain-general effects.
  • The findings support the hypotheses regarding both domain-specific stability and domain-general influence of response randomness.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in response randomness are stable over time within a given domain.
  • Response randomness demonstrates domain-general characteristics, influencing behavior across different tasks.
  • These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of randomness in human cognition and behavior.