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On the self-erasing nature of errors of prediction.
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 538 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self & Cognition.read more
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From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior
TL;DR: There appears to be general agreement among social psychologists that most human behavior is goal-directed (e. g., Heider, 1958 ; Lewin, 1951), and human social behavior can best be described as following along lines of more or less well-formulated plans.
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Illusion and well-being: a social psychological perspective on mental health
TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.
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Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
TL;DR: In this article, a review is presented of the book "Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, and Daniel Kahneman".
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Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment.
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The conjunction rule as mentioned in this paper states that the probability of a conjunction cannot exceed the probabilities of its constituents, P (A) and P (B), because the extension (or the possibility set) of the conjunction is included in the extension of their constituents.
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Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implica- tions of individual differences in performance for each of the four explanations of the normative/descriptive gap, including performance errors, computational limitations, the wrong norm being applied by the experi- menter, and a different construal of the task by the subject.
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On the psychology of prediction
Daniel Kahneman,Amos Tversky +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the rules that determine intuitive predictions and judgments of confidence and contrast these rules to the normative principles of statistical prediction and show that people do not appear to follow the calculus of chance or the statistical theory of prediction.
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Self-perception theory
TL;DR: Self-perception theory as discussed by the authors states that individuals come to know their own attitudes, emotions, and other internal states partially by inferring them from observations of their own overt behavior and/or the circumstances in which this behavior occurs.
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The Intuitive Psychologist And His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the shortcomings of intuitive psychologists and the sources of bias in their attempts at understanding, predicting, and controlling the events that unfold around them, and explored the logical or rational schemata employed by intuitive psychologists.
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Compliance without pressure: The foot-in-the-door technique.
TL;DR: Significant evidence is produced that greater external pressure generally leads to greater compliance with the wishes of the experimenter, and the one exception appears to be situations involving the arousal of cognitive dissonance.