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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognition
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1365180

The Limits of Personal Experience

Provisionally accepted
Venkat Ram Reddy Ganuthula Venkat Ram Reddy Ganuthula *
  • Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India

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    This article examines how three types of experience-personal, related others, and unrelated others-influence decision-making. We present the complexities and nuances in using these experiential sources to suggest that personal experience is preferred to the other two sources. We discuss the implications of this preference for decision-making processes, especially in contexts involving transformative outcomes. To conclude, we discuss how people rely on other experiential sources when their preferred source is limited.

    Keywords: personal experience, decision-making, rationality, information, experience

    Received: 18 Jun 2024; Accepted: 08 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ganuthula. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Venkat Ram Reddy Ganuthula, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India

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