Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing / Klaus Fiedler and Eva Walther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiedler, Klaus, 1951-

Contributor:

Walther, Eva, 1964-

Series:

European monographs in social psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Research--Methodology.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Research.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hove (UK) ; New York : Psychology Press, 2004.

Contents:

The topic of social hypothesis testing

Stereotyping as a cognitive-environmental learning process : delineating the conceptual framework

Learning social hypotheses: stereotypes as illusory correlations

The auto-verification of social hypotheses

Information search in the "inner world" : stereotyps origins in constructive 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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0863778321

OCLC:

52312592