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Abstract. Perceivers’ shared theories about the social world have long featured prominently in social inference research. Here, we investigate how fundamental diVerences in such theories in uence basic inferential processes. Past work has typically shown that integrating multiple.
Arbitrary inference is one of the earliest and broadest cognitive disotortions described in CBT. Beck defines it as "the process of forming an interpretation of a situation, event, or experience when there is no factual evidence to support the conclusion or when the conclusion is contrary to the evidence". The Arbitrary Inference information ...
31 sty 2006 · Metrics in psychological research often are arbitrary. We define a metric as arbitrary when it is not known where a given score locates an individual on the underlying psy-
Many psychological tests have arbitrary metrics but are appropriate for testing psychological theories. Metric ar-bitrariness is a concern, however, when researchers wish to draw inferences about the true, absolute standing of a group or individual on the latent psychological dimension being measured. The authors illustrate this in the context of
1 mar 2024 · In the second part, we will turn to inferential problems in social and personality psychology. First, we will see how causal inference can fail despite randomization, and how a causal lens can unify a broad range of different problems (manipulation checks, mediation analysis, missing data).
In social psychology, the term attribution has two primary meanings. The first refers to explanations of behavior (i.e., answers to why questions); the second refers to inferences or ascriptions (e.g., inferring traits from behavior, ascribing blame to a person).
errors in thinking: arbitrary inference; selective abstraction; overgeneralization; magnification and minimization; per- sonalization; and absolutistic, dichotomous thinking.
