Confirmation bias and the testing of hypotheses about other people
Critical reviews of the literatures on self-fulfilling prophecies and self-confirming hypotheses uncovered several weaknesses in key works on those topics. In particular two important flaws were revealed. Hypotheses and expectations were confused and confounded and the most important aspect of these...
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University of Warwick
1986
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378288 |