PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture : March 20.docx
28 Apr 2014
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Thursday, march 20, 2014: does pns lead to stereotype formation as well as use, proposed mechanism, biased reasoning processes aimed at imposing single structure of new information, method, brought subjects into the lab for an impression formation experience of group a and group b on the basis of their ability to unscramble anagrams, the subjects were to make a judgment about which group was smarter, subjects shown 50 slides (25 for a and 25 for b), each representing 4 pieces of information, some anagrams are easier than others, while some are harder, aggregate success rate 40% vs. b success rate 60, 5 letter anagrams, most of group a"s anagrams were hard, while group b"s were easy, on both types of anagrams, group a does better, pns predicted the extent to which people thought through all of the, pns significantly correlated with accuracy of impression re. group a vs.
