Petter Johansson studies decision processes and the relation between choices and reported reasons. In a choice blindness experiment, a selected outcome was covertly exchanged before participants explained their choice. Some participants supplied reasons for an outcome they had not selected. Comparing detection with explanation shows why a fluent retrospective account is not by itself proof of accurate access to the process that generated the original decision. [ref]
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