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Expecting the unexpected: how people prioritise predictability

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GA ID:
GA28644
Agency:
Australian Research Council
Approval Date:
27-Nov-2018
Publish Date:
18-Dec-2018
Category:
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research
Grant Term:
4-Jun-2019 to 31-Dec-2023
Original: 1-Jan-2019 to 31-Dec-2021
Value (AUD):
$180,000.00 (GST inclusive where applicable)
Variations:
One-off/Ad hoc:
No
Aggregate Grant Award:
No
PBS Program Name:
ARC 18/19 Discovery
Grant Program:
Discovery Projects
Grant Activity:
Expecting the unexpected: how people prioritise predictability
Purpose:
This project aims to investigate how people represent and use information about unpredictability in their environment. Seeing too much predictability is problematic, but seeing too little can also be a problem, for example inappropriate "learned helplessness" can occur, whereby people feel disempowered because the world is seen as random. Recent findings demonstrated a bias in fundamental learning that may maintain these inappropriate beliefs about unpredictability. This bias is not anticipated by formal theories of learning. The project will investigate how this bias is brought about by first formalising a novel theory of fundamental learning and then systematically testing its assumptions.
GO ID:
GO724
GO Title:
Discovery Projects commencing in 2019
Internal Reference ID:
DP19 Round 1
Selection Process:
Targeted or Restricted Competitive
Confidentiality - Contract:
No
Confidentiality - Outputs:
No

Grant Recipient Details
Recipient Name:
Flinders University
Recipient ABN:
65 542 596 200

Grant Recipient Location
Suburb:
BEDFORD PARK
Town/City:
BEDFORD PARK
Postcode:
5042
State/Territory:
SA
Country:
AUSTRALIA

Grant Delivery Location
State/Territory:
SA
Postcode:
5042
Country:
AUSTRALIA

Contact Details

ARC NCGP General Enquiries

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02 6287 6600

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