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Personality and probabilistic thinking: An exploratory study
Author(s) -
Wright G. N.,
Phillips L. D.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1979.tb01686.x
Subject(s) - psychology , probabilistic logic , ambiguity , personality , cognition , social psychology , set (abstract data type) , cognitive psychology , conservatism , big five personality traits , authoritarianism , artificial intelligence , computer science , democracy , neuroscience , politics , political science , law , programming language
This study examines relationship between authoritarianism, conservatism, dogmatism, intolerance of ambiguity and probabilistic thinking. By probabilistic thinking we mean tendency to adopt a probabilistic set, discrimination of uncertainty, and ability to express that uncertainty meaningfully either verbally or as a numerical probability. From orthodox conceptualizations of personality/cognitive measures one would anticipate strong relationships between these measures and our own various measures of probabilistic thinking. present study makes it clear that such relationships may not be present.