Abstract:Two experiments examined individuals' tendencies to make extreme trait attributions and behavioral judgments based on little and nondiagnostic information. In Experiment 1, naive subjects, using only sketchy biographical information and excerpts from a fictitious personnel file, made strong attributions about a stimulus person's personality and potential in a work‐related situation. Subjects failed to make use of manipulated statistically diagnostic information, although the manipulations were correctly percei… Show more
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