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... failed , they infer that the actor is unusually able . When they are told that the actor failed but that the majority of other people failed as well , they attribute the actor's failure to task difficulty rather than to ability . It is ...
... failed , they infer that the actor is unusually able . When they are told that the actor failed but that the majority of other people failed as well , they attribute the actor's failure to task difficulty rather than to ability . It is ...
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... ( failure condition ) . Following this outcome manipula- tion , subjects were thoroughly debriefed concerning the predetermined and random nature of their task outcome . They not only were told that their feed- back had been false but ...
... ( failure condition ) . Following this outcome manipula- tion , subjects were thoroughly debriefed concerning the predetermined and random nature of their task outcome . They not only were told that their feed- back had been false but ...
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... Failure to Report Influential Factors FAILURE TO Recognize semantic cuing effecTS . In one study , subjects memorized a series of word pairs ( for example , " ocean - moon ' ' ) , some of which were intended to increase the likelihood ...
... Failure to Report Influential Factors FAILURE TO Recognize semantic cuing effecTS . In one study , subjects memorized a series of word pairs ( for example , " ocean - moon ' ' ) , some of which were intended to increase the likelihood ...
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inferential problems and the formal scientific | 8 |
summary | 15 |
the representativeness heuristic | 24 |
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