Toward an Integration of Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives on Social Inference: A Biased Hypothesis-Testing Model

1987/01/01 by Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg · 3 citations
Decision Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology #Artificial intelligence #Attribution #Attribution bias #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Heuristics #Inference #Process (computing) #Psychology #Psychology of Social Influence #Social cognition #Social psychology #Variety (cybernetics)

paper · doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(08)60417-7

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