1st Edition
Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the problem of stereotyping and hypothesis testing. Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing explicates the proposition that many stereotypes... Read more
The Topic of Social Hypothesis Testing. Stereotyping as a Cognitive-Environmental Learning Process: Delineating the Conceptual Framework. Learning of Social Hypotheses - Stereotypes as Illusory Correlations. The Auto-verification of Social Hypotheses. Information Search in the 'Inner World': The Origin of Stereotypes in Memory. Testing Social Hypotheses in Tri-variate Problem Space: Further Variants of Environmental Stereotype Learning. Explicit and Implicit Hypotheses Testing in a Complex Environment. The Vicissitudes of Information Sampling in a Fallible Environment: An Integrative Framework. Epilogue: Locating CELA in Modern Stereotype Research.
Biography
Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther
I like this monograph and think it makes some important points. It presents an outstanding research program which is very well described. - Charles Stangor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
