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The psychology of being "right": The problem of accuracy in social perception and cognition.
Abstract
Several difficulties are noted with general questions psychologists have been asking about human accuracy, such as whether people are typically accurate or inaccurate, what the boundary conditions for accuracy are, or the general process whereby accuracy may be improved. Instead, a situationally specific approach to accuracy is adopted in which a central role is assigned to the judgmental process. Accordingly, two general paradigms are distinguished addressing accuracy from realistic and phenomenal perspectives. The realist paradigm focuses on subjects' judgments and the degree to which these correspond to an external criterion. The phenomenal paradigm focuses on subjects' internal criterion as well as their perceptions of the target judgment and the judgment-to-criterion correspondence. Research possibilities in each paradigm are noted. It is suggested that attention to judgmental factors may extend accuracy work in previously unexplored directions.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kruglanski, A. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kruglanski, Arie W.
- ORCID
- Kruglanski, Arie W.
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1989-11
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 395-409
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W2079002577
- Cited by
- 502
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 33.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
- Keywords
- accuracy, social perception, social cognition, realism
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