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Neglecting the Predictions of Others: The Effects of Base Rate Neglect and Interhemispheric Interaction on the Above and Below Average Effects

Lanning, Michael D.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7687-9064
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430401018

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, Psychology.
Can the above- and below-average effects be debiased by providing people with base rate information? Two experiments were designed to investigate the debiasing effects of providing numerical and verbal base rate information on the above- and below-average effects (Kruger, 1999). In Experiment 1, participants answered easy and hard trivia questions taken from Lanning (2011) and made absolute and comparative judgments of ability. The results of Experiment 1 showed that providing numerical base rate information was able to debias the below-average effect, but had no effect on the above-average effect. In Experiment 2, participants made absolute and comparative judgments of ability on easy and hard tasks, taken from Rose et al. (2012). The results from Experiment 2 showed that providing verbal base rate information was unable to debias the above- or below-average effects. Results from Experiment 2 also showed that egocentric weighting was reduced after being presented with verbal base rate information, but only in consistent handers, as predicted.
Stephen Christman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
John Jasper, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Andrew Geers, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jason Rose, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Sarnecki, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
90 p.
Psychology
Social Comparison, Handedness, Above Average Effect, Below Average Effect, Egocentrism

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  • Lanning, M. D. (2015). Neglecting the Predictions of Others: The Effects of Base Rate Neglect and Interhemispheric Interaction on the Above and Below Average Effects [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430401018

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lanning, Michael. Neglecting the Predictions of Others: The Effects of Base Rate Neglect and Interhemispheric Interaction on the Above and Below Average Effects. 2015. University of Toledo, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430401018.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lanning, Michael. "Neglecting the Predictions of Others: The Effects of Base Rate Neglect and Interhemispheric Interaction on the Above and Below Average Effects." Doctoral dissertation, University of Toledo, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430401018

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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