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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450741503321

Autore

Fiedler Klaus <1951, >

Titolo

Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing / / Klaus Fiedler & Eva Walther

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove ; ; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-47105-3

1-280-07741-7

0-203-64153-1

0-86377-832-1

Descrizione fisica

x, 198 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

WaltherEva <1964->

Disciplina

303.3/85/072

Soggetti

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Hypothesis

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-186) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.