Journal article
Contributions of specific cell information to judgments of interevent contingency
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.16(3), pp.509-521
05/1990
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.16.3.509
PMID: 2140406
Abstract
College students considered the possible effect of an experimental drug on a skin rash. The information came from a 2 x 2 contingency table involving receipt or nonreceipt of the drug and improvement or nonimprovement of the rash: Cell A = receipt-improvement; Cell B = receipt-nonimprovement; Cell C = nonreceipt-improvement; Cell D = nonreceipt-nonimprovement. Without numerical information. Ss judged cells to be ordered A greater than B greater than C greater than D. The same order held when the contribution of each cell was derived from the contingency judgments of other subjects given numerical information. No such consistency was seen when one group of Ss made both judgments: whether individual Ss equally or unequally assessed the importance of the four cells, their contingency estimates showed cell use to be ordered A greater than B greater than C greater than D. These findings may result from strong biases that Ss harbor in processing contingency information.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Contributions of specific cell information to judgments of interevent contingency
- Creators
- E A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242W W DornerS F Kao
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.16(3), pp.509-521
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-7393.16.3.509
- PMID
- 2140406
- ISSN
- 0278-7393
- eISSN
- 1939-1285
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/1990
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070215402771
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