Temporal Patterns of Accuracy Confidence in Social Judgments: A New Method and Initial Results

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 33 - Trang 239-249 - 2009
Miles L. Patterson1, Mark E. Tubbs1, Glenn Carrier1, Larissa K. Barber2
1Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
2St. Louis University, St. Louis, USA

Tóm tắt

An integrated, computer-based system was developed to record participants’ continuous judgment changes on a revised form of the Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT-15). Consistent with the considerable research on “thin slice” judgments, the mean latency for greater than chance accuracy confidence was just 16 s (median = 10 s) for the ten one-part scenes on the IPT. There was also a clear and strong linear trend for increasing accuracy confidence across the first 25 s of the ten one-part scenes. For the five-two-part scenes, where comparative judgments were required (e.g., which statement is truthful, which is a lie?), no clear pattern of increasing accuracy confidence was found, with mean scores hovering near chance. The utility of the new system for analyzing the time course of social judgments is discussed and the potential reasons for the contrasting results for the one-part and two-part scenes were examined.

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