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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The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Inc.
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