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Judgment policy and interpersonal learning
Author(s) -
Summers David A.,
Taliaferro J. Dale,
Fletcher Donna J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830150605
Subject(s) - interpersonal communication , psychology , contrast (vision) , interpersonal relationship , interpersonal interaction , policy learning , social psychology , regression analysis , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , machine learning
In a study of interpersonal learning, 96 S s were asked to predict another person's judgments about the socio‐economic growth of a series of underdeveloped nations. Following each prediction, S s were informed of the actual judgment made by the person (or Target) whose policy they were attempting to learn. Results from 150 learning trials revealed that interpersonal learning was significantly influenced by (a) the substantive differences among the judgment policies to be learned, as well as (b), the type of information initially available to the learner. With regard to the latter, it was found that S s who were shown a quantitative description of the Target's policy provided by a regression analysis learned to predict the Target's judgments with substantial accuracy. In contrast, S s who were initially shown policy descriptions (either quantitative or verbal) provided by the Target himself performed significantly less well.