Motivated Reasoning and Performance on The Wason Selection Task  

Oleh:

Gilovich, Thomas ; Regan, Dennis T. ; Dawson, Erica

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 28 no. 10 (2002), page 1379-1387.
Topik: selection; wason selection task; motivated reasoning; performance
Fulltext: 1379PSPB2810.pdf (93.64KB)

Ketersediaan

Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: PP45.11 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

Lihat Detail Induk

Isi artikel

People tend to approach agreeable propositions with a bias toward confirmation and disagreeable propositions with a bias toward disconfirmation. Because the appropriate strategy for solving the four - card Wason selection task is to seek disconfirmation, the authors predicted that people motivated to reject a task rule should be more likely to solve the task than those without such motivation. In two studies, participants who considered a Wason task rule that implied their own early death (Study 1) or the validity of a threatening stereotype (Study 2) vastly outperformed participants who considered non threatening or agreeable rules. Discussion focuses on how a skeptical mindset may help people avoid confirmation bias both in the context of the Wason task and in everyday reasoning.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali