Positive test strategies and confirmation bias in social assessment

By Jonathan Janzen, Flora Oswald, Richelle Acreman, Michael McCarthy, and Sven Van de Wetering in talks

May 18, 2018

Abstract

A talk my team gave on how confirmation bias influences social assessments.

Date

May 18, 2018

Time

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Location

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Event

Abstract

Snyder and Swann (1978) demonstrated that individuals systematically adopt confirmatory strategies and preferentially search for evidence that confirms existing beliefs. We suspect that Snyder and Swann’s results are an artifact of their methodology. In the present experiment, we replicated Snyder and Swann’s work, but had participants generate their own hypothesis testing questions instead of selecting questions from an existing list. Results did not replicate those of the original study.

Posted on:
May 18, 2018
Length:
1 minute read, 70 words
Categories:
talks
Tags:
research
See Also:
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Implicit Association Test effects are an artifact of design