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Some Personality Effects on Extreme Responding and on the Relative Weighting of Items in Combination
Author(s) -
WARR PETER,
ROGERS COLIN
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1974.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - psychology , judgement , personality , inference , salience (neuroscience) , social psychology , weighting , cognitive psychology , expectancy theory , artificial intelligence , epistemology , computer science , medicine , philosophy , radiology
Variations in judgement associated with differences in ethnocentrism‐authoritarianism are examined. The tendency to make extreme responses is seen here to derive from the content of the belief system in question rather than from any stylistic features of judgement. Both high and low scorers may be more extreme than their counterparts, according to the content of the belief being recorded. A second feature studied is the relative importance of cues in combination. Previous work has demonstrated the prepotence of negatively evaluated material, but this overall pattern is now shown to require modification when personality‐relevant judgements are made. In such cases greater importance is given to the inference which is consistent with the personality belief‐system. This suggests the operation of two types of stimulus importance: ‘importance in context’ and ‘overall salience’.