To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-Assisted Decision-Making

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Evidence and limits

Finding: Cognitive-forcing interventions reduced overreliance more than simple explanation interfaces, but the strongest interventions received the least favorable subjective ratings and effects varied with need for cognition.

Impact: Strengthen deliberate review at consequential boundaries. Test proportionate friction rather than adding a universal interruption.

Boundary: One experimental task does not establish the right intervention for sustained professional work. Next: what is the least disruptive intervention that improves error detection for a given consequence level?

Flags: bounded decision tasks; intervention burden

Record State: Catalog review recorded; not a performance endorsement

What was reviewed: Structure and relevance screened; not a full evaluation

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Recorded chart appearances

  • 2026-10-13: position 55. Relevant to the recorded review topic (see source); Structure and relevance screened; not a full evaluation evidence
  • 2026-10-12: position 54. Relevant to the recorded review topic (see source); Structure and relevance screened; not a full evaluation evidence