Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing - Fiedler, Klaus, 1951-; Walther, Eva, 1964- (Hove (UK) ; New York : Psychology Press, 2004)
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 hypothesis testing in a complex environment -- The vicissitudes of information sampling in a fallible environment : an integrative framework -- Epilogue: Locating CELA in modern stereotype research.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and indexes.
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Keywords: Stereotypes (Social psychology); Hypothesis; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology; Electronic books