Abstract
The variability of the information on which a belief was initially based should moderate the degree to which the belief is revised when new disconfirming information is received. Reasoning from everyday intuitions, psychological theories of concept representation, and a rational mathematical analysis, we inferred that as variability increased, resistance to disconfirming information would also increase. Participants' judgments of the central tendencies of distributions of numerical information confirmed this prediction.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 499-503 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Psychonomic Bulletin and Review |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)