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Effects of hypothesis and assigned task on question selection strategies
Author(s) -
Meertens Roel W.,
Koomen Willem,
Delpeut Alfred P.,
Hager Gerlof A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420140403
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , social psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , cognitive psychology , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer science , management , economics
Semin and Strack (1980) demonstrated that the findings obtained by Snyder and Swann (1978) with respect to an hypothesis‐confirming strategy in social interaction were due to the assigned task, and not to a person's hypothesis. In our first experiment we replicated Semin and Strack's results. In a second experiment, employing a more effective manipulation of the subject's hypothesis, support was obtained for an effect of the hypothesis factor. It was concluded that both an assigned task effect and an hypothesis effect can be demonstrated in the laboratory and probably exist in reality.