00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861985463 Buklod 20150204130726.0 g||| | || || ta 160212s1992 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00016088021 BAG rda eng Circulation-Monograph Anderson, Craig author. Belief perseverance, biased assimilation, and covariation detection the effects of hypothetical social theories and new data Craig A. Anderson, Kathryn I. Kellam. [Place of publication not identified] The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Inc. ©1992. 11 leaves illustrations 28 cm Photocopy. Includes bibliographical references. Belief perseverance -- Goals of the present experiment -- Task selection -- Results and discussion -- General discussion -- Conclusions. Initial beliefs about the relation between a person's risk preference and ability as a firefighter were manipulated using a hypothetical explanation task. Subjects then evaluated new data that displayed either a clearly positive or a clearly negative relation between the variables, presented in scatter plots. Final beliefs were assessed in several ways. The main findings were that general beliefs were influenced by new data but not by explanation, that specific predictions about a group of risk-preferring and a group of conservative firefighters were influenced by explanation but not by new data, that specific predictions about 100 firefighter trainees were influenced by new data and by explanation, and that new data were evaluated in an unbiased fashion. Discussion focuses on the power of hypothetical explanation to produce belief perseverance, boundary conditions of biased assimilation, and the different judgment processes people use to generate answers to different types of belief questions. Belief perseverance. Biased assimilation. Fire fighters Physical training. Kellam, Kathryn L. author. Personality and Psychology Bulletin Vol.18, No.5 (1992) : pages 555-565. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Circulation-Monograph Analytics