PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Oskar Boettger, Parliament Of The United Kingdom, Fundamental Attribution Error
11 Mar 2013
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Scientists are supposed to be dedicated to the truth even if they nd it distasteful. Not the subject matter, but the character of its practitioners. Need openness to evidence that may overrun important assumptions. Hard to say you"re wrong; worse with emotionally/politically charged issues. Tabula rasa model of political psychologist is wrong. Like egalitarian social policies, detest racism, sceptical of use of force in ir, suspicious of justi cations for war. Tetlock special interest in social and political reasoning. Discovered peter suedfeld"s content analysis, in particular the integrative complexity coding system. Ignore what people are saying and focus on how they say it. Some think there is only one way to think about a topic. Others more open minded and see room for reasonable people to disagree. Lowest level of complexity scale (score of 1) responses show no tolerance for other ways of looking at the world (low evaluative differentiation) for both pro-choice and pro-life arguments:
