Belief perseverance, biased assimilation, and covariation detection the effects of hypothetical social theories and new data

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...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Craig (Author), Kellam, Kathryn L. (Author)
Formato: Analytics
Idioma:English
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Inc. ©1992.
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