Suspicion and Dispositional Inference
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The role of suspicion in the dispositional inference process is examined. Perceivers who are led to become suspicious of the motives underlying a target's behavior appear to engage in more active and thoughtful attributional analyses than nonsuspicious perceivers. Suspicious perceivers resist drawing inferences from a target's behavior that reflect the correspondence bias (or fundamental attribution error), and they consciously deliberate about questions of plausible causes and categorizations of the target's behavior They are, however, quite willing to make strong correspondent inferences about the target if they learn additional contextual information that renders alternative explanations for the target's behavior less plausible. Implications of these findings for current multiple-stage models of the dispositional inference process are discussed, and the need for these and other models to give more consideration to the social nature of social perception is asserted.
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Suspicion—questioning whether a target’s behavior reflects genuine motives or ulterior ones—leads perceivers to suspend dispositional inferences and resist the correspondence bias. Suspicious perceivers remain willing to make strong correspondent inferences when later contextual information disambiguates the target’s behavior, suggesting multiple-stage models underweight the social and motivational nature of social perception.
Key findings
- In Fein, Hilton, and Miller’s (1990) Studies 1 and 2, subjects in no-choice conditions inferred that an essay author’s true attitude matched the position argued, whereas subjects in ulterior-motives conditions drew no person inferences from the speech.
- Suspicion is not mere conservatism: suspicious subjects wrote significantly more open-ended explanations and, in Fein (1991, Studies 1 and 2), were significantly more likely to report attribution-relevant thoughts than nonsuspicious subjects.
- Suspicious perceivers use behavior selectively: in Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1989), subjects would not infer whether a suitor loved a wealthy widow or was after her money, but they did infer that he strongly wanted to marry her.
- When later information disambiguates behavior, suspicious perceivers make strong correspondent inferences: Fein et al. (1990, Study 3) and Fein et al. (1989) found that additional sincerity or honesty/greed cues led to correspondent inferences about attitude, love, or greed.
- Suspicion can produce cynicism toward expectancy-disconfirming behavior: in Fein (1991, Studies 6 and 7), subjects rated a student’s cultural interests more negatively and an ex-convict less trustworthy when the target was aware of the negative expectancy; in Study 8, they revised expectations for hard-to-fake analytical performance but not for interpersonal style.
Methods
- Design: theoretical and conceptual review article, not a new empirical study; it integrates prior experiments on suspicion and dispositional inference.
- Data or sample: reviewed experiments use assigned-essay, courtship-of-wealthy-widow, fellowship-interview, and ex-convict job-candidate paradigms; no sample sizes or statistical values are reported in the provided text.
- Main analysis: narrative synthesis and critique of multiple-stage dispositional inference models, including anchor-and-adjustment accounts and Trope’s model, with a proposed distinction between diagnostic and calibrative discounting.
Limitations
- The paper does not include a formal limitations section. It states that current multiple-stage models do not clearly account for suspicion and calls for models that better recognize the social nature of social perception.
- Evident from the text: the argument relies on prior studies, including an unpublished doctoral dissertation (Fein, 1991) and a conference paper (Fein, Hilton, & Miller, 1989), and reports no new data or numeric effect sizes.
- Evident from the text: as a theoretical review, its causal claims depend on the reviewed experiments rather than on new manipulations reported here.
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- Findingcitation§ Suspicion and Dispositional Inference · p. 2
Thibaut and Riecken (1955) found that a helper was liked less when he was of lower status than the recipient.
“Thibaut and Riecken (1955) manipulated the relative status of the helper and the recipient and found that the helper was liked less when he was of lower status than the recipient.”
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- Findingcitation§ Suspicion and Dispositional Inference · p. 2
Pruitt (1968) found that the person who received help was less grateful when the help represented a relatively small proportion of the helper's resources.
“Pruitt (1968) manipulated the resources available to the helper and found that the person who received help was less grateful when the help represented a relatively small proportion of the helper's resources.”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5
Fein et al. (1990, Study 3) found that subjects who read additional information did tend to make strong correspondent inferences about the target's attitude.
“the subjects who read this information did tend to make strong correspondent inferences about his attitude.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION: AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 4
Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1990) found that subjects in no-choice conditions saw the target's behavior as more normative than subjects in ulterior motives conditions.
“subjects in the no-choice conditions saw the target's behavior as more normative (expected) than subjects in the ulterior motives conditions.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 3
Jones, Davis, and Gergen (1961) found that when actors' self-descriptions were consistent with the job description, subjects' ratings did not differ from neutral ratings.
“However, when the selfdescriptions were consistent with the job description, and therefore possibly given in order to get the job, subjects'ratings did not differ from neutral ratings”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 4
Fein et al. (1990, Study 1) found that subjects in suspicion conditions wrote significantly more than subjects in no-choice conditions when asked why the author behaved as he did.
“when we (Fein et al., 1990, Study 1) asked subjects to indicate why the author behaved as he did, subjects in the suspicion conditions wrote significantly more than subjects in the no-choice conditions.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 3
Jones, Davis, and Gergen (1961) found that subjects' trait descriptions of actors corresponded most closely to the actors' self-descriptions when those descriptions were inconsistent with the job description.
“The results showed that subjects' trait descriptions of the actors corresponded most closely to the actor's self-descriptions when those descriptions were inconsistent with the job description.”
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- Findingown data§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7
In the second study, subjects who read that the candidate knew the interviewer was aware of his status as an ex-convict rated him as significantly less trustworthy than subjects in any other conditions.
“Consistent with predictions, subjects who read that the candidate knew that the interviewer was aware of his status as an ex-convict rated him as significantly less trustworthy than subjects in any of the other conditions.”
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Subjects who knew of both the negative expectancy about the student's cultural interests and the student's awareness that the interviewer would have this expectancy rated the student's true attitude toward theater, opera, and art significantly more negatively than subjects in any other conditions.
“Consistent with predictions, subjects who knew of both the negative expectancy about the student's cultural interests and the student's awareness that the interviewer would have this expectancy rated the student's true attitude toward theater, opera, and art significantly more negatively than subjects in any of the other conditions.”
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Fein et al. (1990, Study 3) found that subjects who did not read additional information were unwilling to make a correspondent inference about the target's true attitude toward the issue discussed in his essay.
“Whereas the subjects who did not read this additional information were unwilling to make a correspondent inference about the target's true attitude toward the issue discussed in his essay”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 4
Fein (1991, Studies 1 and 2) found that suspicious subjects were significantly more likely to indicate attribution-relevant thoughts about the target than subjects who were not led to be suspicious.
“when subjects in other studies (Fein, 1991, Studies 1 and 2) have been asked to complete a thoughtlisting task, suspicious subjects were significantly more likely to indicate attribution-relevant thoughts about the target than subjects who were not led to be suspicious.”
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- Findingown data§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7
Ratings made by subjects who knew of the expectancy but who knew the student was unaware of it did not differ significantly from ratings made by subjects who were never informed of this expectancy.
“In contrast, the ratings made by subjects who knew of the expectancy but who knew the student was unaware of it did not differ significantly from the ratings made by subjects who were never informed of this expectancy.”
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Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1990) Studies 1 and 2 found that subjects in no-choice conditions inferred that the author's true attitudes about the proposition were consistent with the position argued in the speech.
“in both studies subjects in the no-choice conditions inferred that the author's true attitudes about the proposition were consistent with the position argued in the speech.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION AND ACCURACY · p. 6
Fein et al. (1990) found that subjects in ulterior motives conditions tended to infer that it was less probable that anyone in the target's position would have behaved similarly than subjects in no-choice conditions.
“subjects in the ulterior motives conditions tended to infer that it was less probable that anyone in the target's position—that is, independent of his or her true attitude—would have behaved similarly to the target than subjects in the no-choice conditions”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 4
Bem (1967) found that subjects in the high-incentive condition made inferences that did not differ from those of control subjects who did not hear the target express any attitude toward the task.
“but the subjects in the high-incentive condition made inferences that did not differ from those of control subjects who did not hear the target express any attitude toward the task.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION: AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 4
Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1990) Studies 1 and 2 found that subjects in ulterior motives conditions drew no person inferences about the target from the speeches he wrote.
“A very different pattern emerged in the ulterior motives conditions of the two experiments: Here subjects drew no person inferences about the target from the speeches he wrote.”
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- Findingcitation§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 4
Bem (1967) found that subjects in the low-incentive condition inferred a more positive real attitude toward the task than other subjects.
“Not only did the subjects in the low-incentive condition infer a more positive “real” attitude toward the task than the other subjects”
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- Findingown data§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7
The results of the first study were conceptually replicated in a second study using a category-based expectancy and concerning an individual's act of honesty.
“These results were conceptually replicated in a second study which used a category-based expectancy and in which the behavior in question concerned an individual's act of honesty.”
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Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1990) found that subjects in ulterior motives conditions did not infer that the author's true motive was to ingratiate.
“subjects in the ulterior motives conditions did not infer that the author's true motive was to ingratiate.”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 4
Fein (1991, Study 1) found that subjects in the condition designed to arouse suspicion tended to indicate the most numerous and rich attributional thoughts.
“Subjects in the condition designed to arouse suspicion tended to indicate the most numerous and rich attributional thoughts.”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5
Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1989) found that subjects inferred that the more the man tried to win the woman's favor, the more he wanted to marry her.
“subjects inferred that the more the man tried to win the woman's favor, the more he wanted to marry her.”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5
Fein et al. (1989) found that subjects concluded that the suitor who returned the change was in love with the woman.
“Subjects concluded that the suitor who returned the change was in love with the woman”
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- Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5
Fein et al. (1989) found that subjects inferred that the suitor who pocketed the change was motivated by greed.
“whereas subjects inferred that the suitor who pocketed the change was motivated by greed.”
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- Findingown data§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 9
Contemplation of the proper categorization of a target's behavior in our research results in subjects becoming much more resistant to the correspondence bias.
“Contemplation of the proper categorization of a target's behavior in our researc, in contrast, results in subjects' becoming much moreresistant to the correspondence bias.”
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The deliberations in which suspicious perceivers engage do not appear to rob them of the cognitive resources needed for the rest of the dispositional inference process.
“Moreover, the deliberations in which they engage do not appear to rob them of the cognitive resources needed for the rest of the dispositional inference process.”
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When subjects in our research learned of contextual information suggesting the possibility of ulterior motives, they seemed to become very sensitive to the role played by situational factors in making their identifications.
“When subjects in our research learned of contextual information suggesting the possibility of ulterior motives, however, they seemed to become very sensitive to the role played by situational factors in making their identifications.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationnone given§ Suspicion and Dispositional Inference · p. 1
Perceivers led to become suspicious of the motives underlying a target's behavior engage in more active and thoughtful attributional analyses than nonsuspicious perceivers.
“Perceivers who are led to become suspicious of the motives underlying a target's behavior appear to engage in more active and thoughtful attributional analyses than nonsuspicious perceivers.”
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Suspicious perceivers resist drawing inferences from a target's behavior that reflect the correspondence bias or fundamental attribution error.
“Suspicious perceivers resist drawing inferences from a target's behavior that reflect the correspondence bias (or fundamental attribution error), and they consciously deliberate about questions of plausible causes and categorizations of the target's behavior.”
- Also stated in: § SUSPICION AND ACCURACY · p. 5 · plain
“they resist falling prey to the correspondence bias”
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- Interpretationcitation§ Suspicion and Dispositional Inference · p. 2
In both Thibaut and Riecken (1955) and Pruitt (1968), the presence of multiple causes led to less extreme inferences.
“In both cases, the presence of multiple causes (i.e., altruism and relatively low status in the case of Thibaut and Riecken; altruism and the availability of abundant resources in the case of Pruitt) led to less extreme inferences.”
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Suspicious perceivers consciously deliberate about questions of plausible causes and categorizations of the target's behavior.
“Suspicious perceivers resist drawing inferences from a target's behavior that reflect the correspondence bias (or fundamental attribution error), and they consciously deliberate about questions of plausible causes and categorizations of the target's behavior.”
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Suspicious perceivers are willing to make strong correspondent inferences about a target if they learn additional contextual information that renders alternative explanations for the target's behavior less plausible.
“They are, however, quite willing to make strong correspondent inferences about the target if they learn additional contextual information that renders alternative explanations for the target's behavior less plausible.”
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Even if the negative expectancy is rather weak, suspicious perceivers are hesitant to take the behavior as evidence that the expectancy was wrong.
“Even if the negative expectancy is rather weak, suspicious perceivers are hesitant to take the behavior as evidence that the expectancy was wrong.”
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Suspicious perceivers are sensitive to subsequent information that can help them disambiguate the meaning of the target's behavior.
“they are sensitive to subsequent information that can help them disambiguate the meaning of the target's behavior”
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Suspicious perceivers may often respond more to the plausibility of an ulterior motive than to its probability.
“suspicious perceivers may often respond more to the plausibility of an ulterior motive than to its probability”
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Because perceivers often have too few cognitive resources to devote to correction, the outcome of the correction process tends to reflect the correspondence bias.
“because perceivers often have too few cognitive resources to devote to the relatively arduous process of correction, the outcome of this process will tend to reflect the correspondence bias”
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Perceivers may be relatively insensitive to the probabilities of various alternative explanations once they decide that there is a possibility that an ulterior motive might exist.
“perceivers may be relatively insensitive to the probabilities of various alternative explanations once they decide that there is a possibility that an ulterior motive might exist.”
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In situations with situational constraint, subjects are more likely to be concerned with determining how much of the implicated trait or attitude is reflected in the target's behavior than with determining which trait or goal is reflected in the target's behavior.
“subjects are more likely to be concerned with determining how much of the implicated trait or attitude is reflected in the target's behavior than with determining which trait or goal is reflected in the target's behavior.”
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If the behavior in question cannot easily be explained away by an ulterior motive explanation, even perceivers given reason to suspect the target was motivated to act in an ungenuine or unrepresentative way are likely to revise their negative expectation in the face of this behavior.
“If the behavior in question cannot easily be explained away by an ulterior motive explanation, then even perceivers who are given reason to suspect that the target was motivated to act in an ungenuine or unrepresentative way are likely to revise their negative expectation in the face of this behavior.”
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The numerous studies that demonstrate the correspondence bias typically manipulate the potential role of situational constraints rather than the potential role of ulterior motivation.
“the numerous studies that demonstrate the correspondence bias (e.g., Gilbert, Pelham, & Krull, 1988; Jones, 1979; Jones & Harris, 1967; Ross, Amabile, & Steinmetz, 1977; Snyder &Jones, 1974) typically manipulate the potential role of situational constraints rather than the potential role of ulterior motivation.”
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Under situational constraint, the target's motives for behaving in the constrained manner are not an issue.
“Under situational constraint the target's motives for behaving in the constrained manner are not an issue.”
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Taken together, the studies suggest that suspicion leads perceivers to react cynically in the face of expectancy-disconfirming behavior when it is plausible, if not necessarily probable, that the target's behavior was caused by ulterior motives.
“Taken together, these studies suggest that suspicion leads perceivers to react cynically in the face of expectancydisconfirming behavior when it is plausible, if not necessarily probable, that the target's behavior was caused by ulterior motives.”
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Perceivers who suspect that a target is motivated to try to disconfirm a negative expectancy are not always unwilling to take the target's expectancy-inconsistent behavior at face value.
“It should also be noted, however, that perceivers who suspect that a target is motivated to try to disconfirm a negative expectancy are not always unwilling to take the target's expectancy-inconsistent behavior at face value.”
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In the ulterior motive case, perceivers are likely to be concerned primarily with why the author wrote the essay in the direction that he or she did.
“Perceivers here are likely to be concerned primarily with the question of why the author wrote the essay in the direction that he or she did.”
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Jones, Davis, and Gergen (1961) and Bem (1967) are rare instances in the literature of failures to find the correspondence bias.
“Consistent with this analysis are two studies that stand out in the literature as rare instances of failures to find the correspondence bias.”
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Suspicious perceivers appear to entertain multiple, often quite complex, explanations for a target's behavior.
“Suspicious perceivers appear to entertain multiple, often quite complex, explanations for a target's behavior.”
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The distinction between diagnosis and calibration suggests that there are two distinct forms of discounting-calibrative discounting and diagnostic discounting.
“Although questions concerned with diagnosing which motives or traits are implicated in a target's behavior are often quite interdependent with questions concerned with calibrating the extremity of the implicated traits (for a discussion of this interdependence, see Hilton et al., 1990; pp. 535-536), the distinction between diagnosis and calibration suggests that there are two distinct forms of”
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- Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 9
The extra cognitive effort that may be needed to address the issue of categorizing the behavior correctly does not necessarily come with the cost of insufficient processing at the later stages of the dispositional inference process.
“The point is that the extra cognitive effort that may be needed to address the issue of categorizing the behavior correctly does not necessarily come with the cost of insufficient processing at the later stages of the dispositional inference process.”
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In terms of Trope's model, the current analysis suggests that the distinction between diagnosis and calibration is orthogonal to the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic inducement.
“In terms of Trope's model, the current analysis suggests that the distinction between diagnosis and calibration is orthogonal to the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic inducement.”
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The suspicious perceiver, unlike the no-choice perceiver, is aware that the behavior under scrutiny is highly meaningful.
“After all, the suspicious perceiver, unlike the no-choice perceiver, is aware that the behavior under scrutiny is highly meaningful.”
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Suspicion is not the only thing that should lead to diagnostic discounting.
“It is clear, however, that suspicion is not the only thing that should lead to diagnostic discounting.”
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When the expectation and the behavior in question concerned the candidate's interpersonal style, subjects who had reason to suspect that the candidate might want to appear to disconfirm the negative expectancy were not as willing to revise their expectation.
“When the expectation and the behavior in question concerned the candidate's interpersonal style, in contrast, subjects who had reason to suspect that the candidate might want to appear to disconfirm the negative expectancy were not as willing to revise their expectation.”
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- Interpretationcitation§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7
Subjects in this condition appeared to recognize that the motivation to disconfirm the expectancy could not serve as a plausible and sufficient cause of the behavior.
“Subjects in this condition appeared to recognize that the motivation to disconfirm the expectancy could not serve as a plausible and sufficient cause of the behavior.”
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Calibrative discounting should occur when the correspondent trait or motive has been identified but contextual information raises questions about the magnitude of the identified trait or motive.
“In contrast, calibrative discounting should occur when the correspondent trait or motive has been identified but contextual information raises questions about the magnitude of the identified trait or motive.”
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The attributional thinking exhibited in these two sets of circumstances may differ importantly.
“The present article suggests that the attributional thinking exhibited in these two sets of circumstances may differ importantly.”
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In another study (Fein, 1991, Study 8), subjects given reason to suspect that a job candidate was motivated to try to dispel a negative expectancy were quite willing to take her expectancy-inconsistent behavior at face value when that behavior concerned her superior performance on a difficult test of analytical reasoning.
“Consistent with this line of reasoning, subjects in another study (Fein, 1991, Study 8) who were given reason to suspect that a job candidate was motivated to try to dispel a negative expectancy were quite willing to take her expectancy-inconsistent behavior at face value when that behavior concerned her superior performance on a difficult test of analytical reasoning.”
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- Interpretationown data§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8
When perceivers are suspicious, they find themselves actively trying to determine which dispositions are implicated in a behavior very early in the process.
“When perceivers are suspicious, they find themselves actively trying to determine which dispositions are implicated in a behavior very early in the process.”
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These subjects appeared to recognize that the explanation that the candidate's behavior was ungenuine was quite plausible.
“These subjects appeared to recognize that the explanation that the candidate's behavior was ungenuine was quite plausible.”
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Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1989) found that subjects were unwilling to infer either that the man was truly in love with the woman or that he was simply after her money.
“the subjects were unwilling to infer either that the man was truly in love with the woman or that he was simply after her money.”
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Findingcitation§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 4Fein (1991, Study 1) found that suspicious subjects' responses indicated they did not tend to conclude that the target was influenced by ulterior motives but rather that the target may have been influenced by ulterior motives.
“Their responses indicated that these subjects did not tend to conclude that the target was influenced by ulterior motives but, rather, that the target may have been influenced by ulterior motives.”
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Findingcitation§ SUSPICION: AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 4Fein, Hilton, and Miller (1990) found that subjects in ulterior motives conditions recognized the possibility that the author's behavior may have been influenced by ulterior motives and perceived that they could not make a confident inference about his true attitude.
“their open-ended responses indicated that these subjects merely recognized the possibility that his behavior may have been influenced by ulterior motives and perceived that they therefore could not make a confident inference about his true attitude.”
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Findingown data§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Subjects in our studies who have been induced to become suspicious tend to take situational factors into sufficient account, become actively concerned with questions of causality, distinguish between information that can and cannot be explained by particular causal explanations, and use subtle cues that can help them determine which among several dispositional inferences is most appropriate.
“Subjects in our studies who have been induced to become suspicious tend to take situational factors into sufficient account, to become actively concerned with questions of causality, to distinguish between information that can and cannot be explained by particular causal explanations, and to use subtle cues that can help them determine which among several dispositional inferences is most appropr”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 3In the typical assigned-essay paradigm, subjects may wonder whether the author really holds the expressed attitude, but it is unlikely that they question why the attitude was expressed.
“Subjects in the typical assigned-essay paradigm may wonder whether the author really holds the expressed attitude, but it is unlikely that they question why the attitude was expressed.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND ACCURACY · p. 6The possibility that an ulterior motive might exist makes perceivers cynical and leads them to be conservative in their inferences.
“The latter possibility makes them cynical and leads them to be conservative in their inferences.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 3Subjects should quickly identify the author's behavior and initially infer that the author holds an attitude corresponding to the essay, then correct this inference in light of situational constraint information.
“subjects should very quickly identify the author's behavior and initially infer that the author holds an attitude that corresponds to the attitude expressed in the essay. Then they should begin to correct this inference in light of the information about situational constraint.”
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Study design and conductown data§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7Subjects in the second study were assigned randomly to one of three conditions.
“Subjects were assigned randomly to one of three conditions.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 6When a perceiver assumes that a target is aware of a stereotype, this awareness leads to suspicion, which in turn leads to rejection of expectancy-disconfirming behavior.
“Notice that what separates the two examples is that the perceiver in the latter scenario assumes that the target is aware of the stereotype. This awareness leads to suspicion, which, in turn, leads to a rejection of the expectancy-disconfirming behavior.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND THE CORRESPONDENCE BIAS · p. 3Until perceivers resolve ambiguity about whether the motives underlying the behavior reflect the author's true attitude, the desire to ingratiate, or some combination, they should suspend their judgments and thereby avoid the correspondence bias.
“Until the perceivers are able to resolve this ambiguity and determine whether the motives underlying the behavior reflect the author's true attitude, the desire to ingratiate, or some combination of these factors, they should suspend their judgments and thereby avoid the correspondence bias.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICION AND ACCURACY · p. 6The wealth of the woman presents a very plausible, though not necessarily the most probable, alternative explanation for the suitor's behavior, and this plausibility is sufficient to lead the perceiver to suspend judgment.
“the wealth of the woman presents a very plausible, though not necessarily the most probable, alternative explanation for the behavior, and this plausibility is sufficient to lead the perceiver to suspend judgment.”
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Premisecitation§ SUSPICION AND EXPECTANCYDISCONFIRMATION · p. 7It is much less plausible that someone who is not athletic but is motivated to appear to be a good athlete could behave in a very athletic fashion for any length of time than that someone motivated to appear culturally literate could act culturally literate during a brief interaction.
“Whereas virtually anyone who is motivated to deceive another by appearing to be culturally literate, for example, could act in a culturally literate manner during a brief interaction (if given some time to prepare), it is much less plausible that someone who is not athletic but is motivated to appear to be a good athlete could behave in a very athletic fashion for any length of time”
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Interpretationreasoning§ CHARACTERIZING THE STATE OF SUSPICION · p. 5Suspicious subjects do not behave as if they had gained no information from the target's behavior; they behave as if they had received important information whose meaning remains ambiguous, and they suspend judgments only until the meaning of the behavior can be made clear.
“subjects who are suspicious do not behave as if they had gained no information from the target's behavior. Instead, they behave as if they had received important information whose meaning remains ambiguous, and they suspend their judgments only until the meaning of the behavior can be made clear.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND THOUGHTFUL PERCEIVERS · p. 10According to our analysis, suspicion results in midpoint ratings because the subjects suspend their judgments, not because they conclude that the target has a moderate disposition.
“According to our analysis, however, suspicion results in midpoint ratings because the subjects suspend their judgments, not because they conclude that the target has a moderate disposition.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Current models do not specify how the correction stage would lead to a consideration of a variety of dispositions.
“Current models do not specify how the correction stage would lead to a consideration of a variety of dispositions.”
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Interpretationown data§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Suspicious perceivers consciously consider competing identifications, and they seek additional cues that can reduce the ambiguity created by this competition.
“Although it is doubtful that they can appreciate completely the role of contextual information in their construal of the target's behavior, suspicious perceivers consciously consider competing identifications, and they seek additional cues that can reduce the ambiguity created by this competition.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 9Controlled processing and considerations of situational factors would be evident at both the early anchoring stage(s) and the later adjustment stage.
“Thus it would appear that controlled processing and considerations of situational factors would be evident at both the early anchoring stage(s) and the later adjustment stage.”
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Interpretationnone given§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Suspicious perceivers entertain multiple inferences, and these inferences sometimes implicate very different dispositions or characterizations (e.g., greed vs. love).
“Rather, suspicious perceivers entertain multiple inferences, and these inferences sometimes implicate very different dispositions or characterizations (e.g., greed vs. love).”
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Premisecitation§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 9Gilbert et al. (1992) found that when perceivers are presented with perceptually obscured behavioral stimuli concerning a target person, the cognitive effort they must devote to deciphering the proper categorization reduces their ability to engage in the cognitively effortful process of correction, thereby increasing the likelihood of succumbing to the correspondence bias.
“Gilbert, McNulty, Giuliano, and Benson (1992), for example, have found that when perceivers are presented with perceptually obscured behavioral stimuli concerning a target person, the cognitive effort they must devote to deciphering the proper categorization reduces their ability to engage in the cognitively effortful process of correction, thereby increasing the likelihood of succumbing to the”
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Interpretationnone given§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Suspicion involves active, deliberative attributional thinking concerning the multiple and potentially rival explanations for a target's behavior.
“Because suspicion involves active, deliberative attributional thinking concerning the multiple and potentially rival explanations for a target's behavior”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND THOUGHTFUL PERCEIVERS · p. 10The discounting that occurs in the case of no-choice conditions may involve more moderate inferences, but the discounting that occurs in the case of ulterior motivation seems to reflect suspended judgment rather than moderate inferences.
“The discounting that occurs in the case of no-choice conditions may involve more moderate inferences, but the discounting that occurs in the case of ulterior motivation seems to reflect suspended judgment rather than moderate inferences.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 8Many current multiple-stage models can account well for the strong tendency of the typical perceiver to draw inappropriately correspondent inferences, but they do not offer as clear an account for the role of suspicion in the dispositional inference process.
“Although many of these models can account well for the strong tendency of the typical perceiver to draw inappropriately correspondent inferences, they do not offer as clear an account for the role of suspicion in the dispositional inference process.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND THOUGHTFUL PERCEIVERS · p. 11Although suspicion may be especially likely to trigger thoughtful diagnostic discounting because people may be quite concerned about being duped or appearing to be a sucker in the face of an actor influenced by ulterior motives, diagnostic discounting should occur whenever the perceiver is uncertain which trait or motive is implicated in a behavior.
“Although suspicion may be especially likely to trigger thoughtful diagnostic discounting because people may be quite concerned about being duped or appearing to be a”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: People may be quite concerned about being duped or appearing to be a sucker in the face of an actor influenced by ulterior motives.
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND COGNITIVE MISERS · p. 9In order to become suspicious in the first place, the perceiver must recognize the situational factors that suggest that ulterior motives may offer a plausible explanation for the target's behavior.
“After all, in order to become suspicious in the first place, the perceiver must recognize the situational factors that suggest that ulterior motives may offer a plausible explanation for the target's behavior.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ CONCLUSION · p. 11When perceiving nonsocial behavior, perceivers need not concern themselves with the motives underlying the behavior; in perceiving people, the plausibility of hidden, illicit motives is often great.
“When perceiving nonsocial behavior, perceivers need not concern themselves with the motives underlying the behavior. In perceiving people, however, the plausibility of hidden, illicit motives is often great.”
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Interpretationnone given§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND THOUGHTFUL PERCEIVERS · p. 10The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic inducements makes sense as long as the corresponding disposition has already been identified.
“The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic inducements makes sense as long as the corresponding disposition has already been identified.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ SUSPICIOUS PERCEIVERS AND THOUGHTFUL PERCEIVERS · p. 11One implication of this analysis may be that although the process may at times be fairly cyclical, perceivers often must first diagnose which trait or motives correspond to the behavior before they can complete their adjustment for intrinsic and extrinsic inducements.
“It is important to note, however, that one implication of this analysis may be that although the process may at times be fairly cyclical, perceivers often must first diagnose which trait or motives correspond to the behavior before they can complete their adjustment for intrinsic and extrinsic inducements.”
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The paper relies on this without support.
Stereotypes are often both public and negative.
“because stereotypes are often both public and negative”
The paper relies on this without support.
The negative aspects of stereotypes are often extremely difficult to disconfirm.
“It is clear that the negative aspects of stereotypes are often extremely difficult to disconfirm.”
The paper relies on this without support.
People may be quite concerned about being duped or appearing to be a sucker in the face of an actor influenced by ulterior motives.
“Although suspicion may be especially likely to trigger thoughtful diagnostic discounting because people may be quite concerned about being duped or appearing to be a”
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Perceivers do not make correspondent trait attributions when they become suspicious of the motives underlying the actor's behavior.
“However, perceivers do not make these correspondent trait attributions when they become suspicious of the motives underlying the actor's behavior.”
From The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Activities on Companies With Bad Reputations (2006) · cites this paper as Hilton, Fein, & Miller, 1993
The paper reports that suspicious perceivers initially refrain from making correspondent inferences when an actor’s motives are ambiguous (Characterizing the State of Suspicion, pp. 4–5). The claim is too absolute: the same section says they may make correspondent inferences after additional information clarifies the behavior. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“It involves the belief that another might have hidden motives (Hilton et al., 1993).”
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“Further, it is likely that individuals have schemas or stereotypes concerning certain situations in which one should be alert to the possibility of deception, and people are likely less truthbiased in situations where they perceive that another person might be motivated to deceive (cf. Hilton, Fein, & Miller, 1993 ).”
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“Suspicion is defined as the truster doubting the sincerity or motivations of the trustee (Hilton et al. 1993).”
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“Hilton et al. (1993) finds similar results in a related study.”
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“Perceivers consider a friendly person, for example, to be someone whose social behaviors stem specifically from a genuine concern for others and not from a self-serving desire to ingratiate (Hilton et al., 1993; Jones, 1964; Vonk, 1999).”
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“Thus, when making judgments about an outgroup member, suspicious attributional processing is in effect (Fein, 1996; Fein et al., 1990; Hilton et al., 1993).”
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“We selected these items based on the conceptual definition of suspicion in terms of questioning the genuineness or sincerity of motives or behavior (Hilton et al., 1993), as the sincerity of the speaker was the target of suspicion.”
MethodSuspicion of motives predicts minorities' responses to positive feedback in interracial interactions
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“For instance, in one study (reviewed in Hilton et al., 1993), a man of moderate means courts a wealthy woman.”
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“For example, studies (e.g., Doelger et al., 1986; Hilton et al., 1993) suggest that individuals engage in more active reflection and are more skeptical of messages when they are led to believe that speakers may harbor ulterior motives.”
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Lucky or clever? From expectations to responsibility judgments
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The Pandering Politicians of Suspicious Minds
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The Construct of State-Level Suspicion
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“…persuasive arguments; his definition included an implied TABLe 1: Definitions of Suspicion From Social Science Literatures social psychology — Hilton, Fein, and Miller (1993) defined suspicion as having two components of “questioning motives” and being in a state of “suspended judgment”…”
BackgroundDistrust: A critical review exploring a universal distrust sequence
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“This lack of decisiveness increases the motivation to acquire more information through a more thorough decision process (Hilton et al., 1993).”
BackgroundBehavioral Adaptation, Confidence, and Heuristic-Based Explanations of the Probing Effect
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“Even in the face of contradictory evidence, stereotype-driven attributions serve to maintain a social perceiver’s initial beliefs about a group (Hastie, 1984; Hilton, Fein, & Miller, 1993; Wilder, Simon, & Myles, 1996).”
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“Regarding the facet of uncertainty, suspicion involves ‘‘suspended judgment’’ (Hilton et al. 1993, p. 502), ‘‘questioning’’ (DeCarlo 2005, p. 239), or simply ‘‘uncertainty’’ itself (Kim and Levine 2011, p. 52; Lyons et al. 2011, p. 220).”
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“From a receiver’s perspective, no specific explanation is required to believe others, but construal of ulterior motives is necessary to be suspicious (Hilton et al., 1993).”
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“According to Hilton et al, “To be suspicious is also to be in a state of suspended judgment” [ 34 , p.”
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How Surveillance Begets Perceptions of Dishonesty: The Case of the Counterfactual Sinner.
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“This latter possibility is supported by evidence suggesting that people tend to be highly vigilant for signs of dishonesty (Fein, Hilton, & Miller, 1990; Hilton, Fein, & Miller, 1993 ).”
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The Optimistic Trust Effect: Use of Belief in a Just World to Cope with Decision-Generated Threat
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Auditor Sensitivity to Real Earnings Management: The Importance of Ambiguity and Earnings Context
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Two-Faced Morality: Distrust Promotes Divergent Moral Standards for the Self Versus Others
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Social Media Use and Paranoia: Factors That Matter in Online Shopping
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“These types of situations are known as triggering uncertainties and distrust [21], but studies almost never reach towards an even more irrational factor—paranoia.”
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“…when consumers infer ulterior motives that underlie a company’s seemingly (social) responsible behavior, they tend to engage in more thoughtful attributional thinking compared to consumers who do not infer such motives (i.e., who are not “suspicious”; Campbell 1999; Hilton, Fein, and Miller 1993).”
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Cultural intelligence and state suspicion: attachment styles as moderators
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Moral Opportunities Versus Moral Tests
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“In addition, research on suspicion (Fein, 1996; Fein & Hilton, 1994; Fein, Hilton, & Miller, 1990; Hilton, Fein, & Miller, 1993) suggests that distrustful people tend to reserve interpersonal judgments, becoming less likely to make dispositional attributions for others’ behavior (Fein et al., 1990; Hilton et al., 1993…”
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Can Simple Metaphors Be Used as Decision Aids to Promote Professional Skepticism?
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“precedence for one attitude over the other causes an increased motivation to acquire more information or to more thoroughly process information to arrive at a conclusion (Hilton et al., 1993).”
BackgroundInfluential
- Authors
- Hilton, J. L., Fein, S., & Miller, D. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Williams College (US)
- Princeton University (US)
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1993-10
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 501-512
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2079398527
- Semantic Scholar
- 399a99633ce8421df81198b2f98dd1b7bf6af833
- Cited by
- 171
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 9.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- suspicion, dispositional inference, fundamental attribution error, correspondence bias, attributional analysis, social perception, contextual information, causal explanation, categorization
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