The Perceived Value of Constrained Behavior: Pressures Toward Biased Inference in the Attitude Attribution Paradigm

Miller, Arthur G.; Schmidt, Daniel F.; Meyer, Carol H.; Colella, Adrienne

doi:10.2307/3033944

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“…In other words, their attention having been focused on the various circumstantial constraints that may have led to the emergence of the behavior, these participants were less confident when it came to answering the attitude question. This finding may be interpreted in light of earlier attempts to stress the impact of pragmatic aspects in the attitude attribution paradigm (Corneille et al, 1999;Leyens et al, 1996;Miller et al, 1984;Wright & Wells, 1988; for a review, see Leyens et al, 1994). By setting up the experiment exclusively in terms of the actor, the case for correspondence bias may have been somewhat exaggerated.…”

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confidence: 59%

The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational focus and dispositional suppression in causal attribution.

Yzerbyt¹,

Corneille²,

Dumont³

et al. 2001

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The authors propose that correction of dispositional inferences involves the examination of situational constraints and the suppression of dispositional inferences. They hypothesized that suppression would result in dispositional rebound. In Study 1, participants saw a video of either a free or a forced speaker. Participants shown a forced speaker later made stronger dispositional inferences about a 2nd, free speaker than control participants did. Study 2 provided evidence for higher rebound among participants who reported trying harder to suppress dispositional inferences during the 1st video. In Study 3, participants were asked to focus on situational constraints or to avoid thinking about the speaker's characteristics. Only the latter instructions led to a dispositional rebound. These data support the view that the correction of dispositional inferences involves 2 processes that lead to distinct consequences in subsequent attribution work.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 59%

The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational focus and dispositional suppression in causal attribution.

Yzerbyt¹,

Corneille²,

Dumont³

et al. 2001

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Logically, a lower level of confidence implies some form of reservation that is otherwise absent at higher levels of confidence. This reservation is interpreted as being indicative of a reduced susceptibility to the correspondence bias (Miller et al, 1984), and it is construed as such in the present study. In fact, given past studies that have characterized the limitations associated with requesting only attitudeattribution ratings from participants (Devine, 1989;Miller et al, 1984), we suspected that attributional confidence ratings would be a more sensitive measure of one's susceptibility to the correspondence bias than would attitude-attribution ratings.…”

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The differential effects of mood on age differences in the correspondence bias.

Mienaltowski¹,

Blanchard‐Fields²

2005

Psychology and Aging

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The present study found that age-related differences in the correspondence bias were differentially influenced by induced mood. Young and older adults completed an attitude-attribution task after having been induced to experience a positive, neutral, or negative mood. Although negative moods intensified age-related differences in the correspondence bias, young and older adults were equally susceptible to the correspondence bias when in a positive mood. In addition, induced mood differentially influenced the attributional confidence of young and older adults. Whereas negatively induced young adults were less confident than positively induced young adults in their attributions, negatively induced older adults were more confident than positively induced older adults in their attributions. Findings are discussed in terms of how positive and negative moods operate differently in motivating young and older adults' attributional judgments.

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“…Results indicate that the teacher was rated higher in these socially undesirable traits than an average student. Of most interest, and in contrast to Gilbert and Malone's (1995) conceptualization of Bierbrauer's results in terms of unrealistic expectations, even participants' explicit appreciation of the present situational forces did not reduce their tendency to attribute negative dispositions to the teacher (see Johnson, Jemmott, & Pettigrew, 1984;A. G. Miller, Schmidt, Meyer, & Colella, 1984, for similar findings).…”

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Implicational schemata and the correspondence bias: On the diagnostic value of situationally constrained behavior.

Gawronski¹

2003

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Drawing on G. D. Reeder's (1993) schematic model of dispositional inference, it is hypothesized that perceivers' tendency to draw correspondent dispositional inferences from situationally constrained behavior (i.e., the correspondence bias) can be due to the application of schematic assumptions about trait-behavior relations (i.e., implicational schemata) within the process of situational adjustment. Applied to attitude attribution, situational adjustment is hypothesized to follow an implicit theory of ability, implying that only authors with a corresponding attitude are able to write a persuasive essay toward a given position. Results from 6 experiments offer converging evidence for this hypothesis. Implications for a sufficient understanding of the processes that lead to the correspondence bias are discussed.

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The Perceived Value of Constrained Behavior: Pressures Toward Biased Inference in the Attitude Attribution Paradigm

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational focus and dispositional suppression in causal attribution.

The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational focus and dispositional suppression in causal attribution.

The differential effects of mood on age differences in the correspondence bias.

Implicational schemata and the correspondence bias: On the diagnostic value of situationally constrained behavior.

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