Adjusting for the correspondence bias: Effects of causal uncertainty, cognitive busyness and causal strength of situational information

Article Abstract:

A cognitive busyness manipulation is used within the attitude attribution paradigm and it is found that higher causal uncertainty predicted increased correction of dispositional inferences, but only when participants had sufficient attentional resources to devote to the task. The research elucidates new models of judgmental correction process by demonstrating that some people will deliberatively correct judgments even when they are not warned explicitly about possible bias.

Uncertainty, Inference

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When two wrongs can make a right: Regulatory nonfit, bias, and correction of judgments

Article Abstract:

Two experiments were conducted to investigate how regulatory nonfit, inconsistency between regulatory state and strategic means, affected the judgments of people. The results lead to the proposal that when people consider whether their judgments are accurate enough, feelings of wrongness from regulatory nonfit can suggest that the answer is no and enhance correction of judgments relative to feelings of rightness from regulatory fit.

Decision-making, Decision making

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Casual uncertainty and correction of judgments

Article Abstract:

Uncertainty about the causes of one's judgment that motivates correction is examined. Activating chronically accessible causal uncertainty (CU) beliefs enhances correction of weather judgments and word frequency judgments are examined.

United States

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