Richard Boettger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Boettger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Boettger |
| SIGNATURE | BOETTGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The dilution effect: Judgmental bias, conversational convention, or a bit of both
This study explored competing normative interpretations of the dilution effect: the tendency for people to underutilize diagnostic evidence in prediction tasks when that evidence is accompanied by irrelevant information. From the normative vantage point of the intuitive statistician, the dilution effect is a judgmental bias that arises from the representativeness heuristic (similarity-matching of causes and effects). From the normative prospectiv…
Accountability amplifies the status quo effect when change creates victims
This study assesses the impact of accountability, the status quo, and anticipated costs and benefits on judgement of the acceptability of a drug in the US pharmaceuticals market. Several effects are documented: (1) subjects were more accepting of a drug, the lower the anticipated risks of side effects and the greater the anticipated benefits; (2) subjects were especially unwilling to accept risk when the drug was not yet on the market and when th…
Cognitive and Rhetorical Styles of Traditionalist and Reformist Soviet Politicians: A Content Analysis Study
Previous research on democratic political leaders has revealed systematic relationships between the content (ideological orientation) and structure (integratively complexity) of political thought. Conservatives tend to be less integratively complex than liberals and moderate socialists-although this effect is qualified by the existence of role-by-ideology and issue-by-ideology interactions. The present study explores the relationship betwen ideol…
Accountability: A social magnifier of the dilution effect
This research demonstrated that accountability can not only reduce judgmental bias, but also exacerbate it--in this case, the dilution effect. Ss made predictions from either diagnostic information alone or diagnostic information plus mixtures of additional data (nondiagnostic information, additional diagnostic data pointing to either the same conclusion or the opposite conclusion). Relative to unaccountable Ss, accountable Ss (a) diluted their p…
Social and cognitive strategies for coping with accountability: Conformity, complexity, and bolstering
Social and cognitive strategies for coping with accountability: Conformity, complexity, and bolstering
Accountability: A social magnifier of the dilution effect
This research demonstrated that accountability can not only reduce judgmental bias, but also exacerbate it--in this case, the dilution effect. Ss made predictions from either diagnostic information alone or diagnostic information plus mixtures of additional data (nondiagnostic information, additional diagnostic data pointing to either the same conclusion or the opposite conclusion). Relative to unaccountable Ss, accountable Ss (a) diluted their p…
Accountability amplifies the status quo effect when change creates victims
This study assesses the impact of accountability, the status quo, and anticipated costs and benefits on judgement of the acceptability of a drug in the US pharmaceuticals market. Several effects are documented: (1) subjects were more accepting of a drug, the lower the anticipated risks of side effects and the greater the anticipated benefits; (2) subjects were especially unwilling to accept risk when the drug was not yet on the market and when th…
Cognitive and Rhetorical Styles of Traditionalist and Reformist Soviet Politicians: A Content Analysis Study
Previous research on democratic political leaders has revealed systematic relationships between the content (ideological orientation) and structure (integratively complexity) of political thought. Conservatives tend to be less integratively complex than liberals and moderate socialists-although this effect is qualified by the existence of role-by-ideology and issue-by-ideology interactions. The present study explores the relationship betwen ideol…
Cognitive and Rhetorical Styles of Traditionalist and Reformist Soviet Politicians: A Content Analysis Study
Previous research on democratic political leaders has revealed systematic relationships between the content (ideological orientation) and structure (integratively complexity) of political thought. Conservatives tend to be less integratively complex than liberals and moderate socialists-although this effect is qualified by the existence of role-by-ideology and issue-by-ideology interactions. The present study explores the relationship betwen ideol…
Accountability: A social magnifier of the dilution effect
This research demonstrated that accountability can not only reduce judgmental bias, but also exacerbate it--in this case, the dilution effect. Ss made predictions from either diagnostic information alone or diagnostic information plus mixtures of additional data (nondiagnostic information, additional diagnostic data pointing to either the same conclusion or the opposite conclusion). Relative to unaccountable Ss, accountable Ss (a) diluted their p…
Social and cognitive strategies for coping with accountability: Conformity, complexity, and bolstering
Accountability amplifies the status quo effect when change creates victims
This study assesses the impact of accountability, the status quo, and anticipated costs and benefits on judgement of the acceptability of a drug in the US pharmaceuticals market. Several effects are documented: (1) subjects were more accepting of a drug, the lower the anticipated risks of side effects and the greater the anticipated benefits; (2) subjects were especially unwilling to accept risk when the drug was not yet on the market and when th…
The dilution effect: Judgmental bias, conversational convention, or a bit of both
This study explored competing normative interpretations of the dilution effect: the tendency for people to underutilize diagnostic evidence in prediction tasks when that evidence is accompanied by irrelevant information. From the normative vantage point of the intuitive statistician, the dilution effect is a judgmental bias that arises from the representativeness heuristic (similarity-matching of causes and effects). From the normative prospectiv…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Conflict Management and Negotiation (2 works)