Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing

ISBN-13: 9780863778322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str.

Klaus Fiedler; Eva Walther

Opis

This volume explicates the proposition that many stereotypes originate not so much in individual brains, but in the stimulus environment that interacts with and constitutes the social individual. The authors describe factors in tests such as judgment, memory and expectation and go on to suggest viable ecological learning approaches to them.

Recenzje

I like this monograph and think it makes some important points. It presents an outstanding research program which is very well described. - Charles Stangor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Spis treści

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 Hypotheses Testing in a Complex Environment. The Vicissitudes of Information Sampling in a Fallible Environment: An Integrative Framework. Epilogue: Locating CELA in Modern Stereotype Research.

O autorze

Klaus Fiedler, Eva Walther