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The "Acquisition Principle": How Beliefs about a Behavior's Prolonged Circumstances Influence Correspondent Inference:
E. Tory Higgins,Laraine Winter +1 more
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This paper found that subjects' willingness to infer a corresponding trait from an instance of a type of behavior was greater for behaviors believed to be consistent with situational forces and to have desirable consequences.Abstract:
People may function like 'naive Thondikeans" whose willingness to make a correspondent inference is increased when they believe that the repeated or prolonged circumstances of a type of behavior facilitate acquiring a disposition to perform that behavior-the acquisition principle In Study 1, subjects' willingness to infer a corresponding trait from an instance of a type of behavior was greater for behaviors believed to be consistent with situational forces and to have desirable consequences. In Study 2, subjects' beliefs that the actor's immediate circumstances (a liberal or conservative audience) facilitated producing a liberal or conservative statement were negatively related to their correspondent inferences about his real attitude. Subjects' beliefs that the speaker's prolonged circumstances (a liberal or conservative upbringing) facilitated producing the statement were positively related to their correspondent inferences. Three types of dispositional judgment are identified that take circumstances in...read more
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The Correspondence Bias
TL;DR: An intellectual history of the correspondence bias is sketched, 4 mechanisms (lack of awareness, unrealistic expectations, inflated categorizations, and incomplete corrections) that produce distinct forms of correspondence bias are described, and how the consequences of correspondence-biased inferences may perpetuate such inferences are discussed.
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Explaining Creativity: The Attributional Perspective
TL;DR: The authors argue that the human tendency to attribute creative behavior to dispositional causes does not stem entirely from the actual impact of dispositions on creative behavior but is influenced also by deep-rooted attributional proclivities and biases, which are described herein.
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A meta-analytic investigation of the processes underlying the similarity-attraction effect:
TL;DR: The authors investigated two competing explanations of the similarity effect: Byrne's (1971) reinforcement model and the information processing perspective, and found that the effects of these explanations were largely consistent with predictions of the information-processing perspective.
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The Really Fundamental Attribution Error in Social Psychological Research
TL;DR: The authors review the classic studies on social influence and the fundamental attribution error to determine whether it is true that behavior of the sort observed in those studies is externally caused in the two senses of external causality used by attribution theorists, and whether laypeople have been shown to overestimate the extent to which behavior is internally caused in either of those two senses, and conclude that there is a different sense of internal versus external causal causality that better characterizes the errors people make.
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A Social Cognitive Perspective on Age Stereotypes
TL;DR: The authors examines the social cognitive perspective on age stereotypes and concludes that, as the only major group classification that changes over time, outside the control of the individual, age stereotypes offer the unique advantage of allowing the study of developmental as well as intergroup perception processes in stereotyping.
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