Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

Morality, which refers to characteristics such as trustworthiness and honesty, has a primary
role in social perception and judgment. A negativity effect characterizes the morality …

In three studies, we investigated whether and to what extent the evaluation of two mutually
exclusive hypotheses is affected by a feature-positive effect, wherein present clues are …

Confirmation bias, whereby individuals hold unwarranted confidence in a focal hypothesis,
might emerge from a combination of errors at the testing and evaluation stages of hypothesis …

Three experiments examined how people gather information on in‐group and out‐group
members. Previous studies have revealed that category‐based expectancies bias the …

Evidence evaluation is a crucial process in many human activities, spanning from medical
diagnosis to impression formation. The present experiments investigated which, if any …

This article examines individuals' expectations in a social hypothesis testing task.
Participants selected questions from a list to investigate the presence of personality traits in …

Trois études ont été menées avec du matériel abstrait afin de tester des modérateurs
possibles de l'effet de la caractéristique positive dans l'évaluation d'hypothèses où les gens …

Two experiments examined how people perceive the diagnosticity of different answers
(“yes” and “no”) to the same question. We manipulated whether the “yes” and the “no” …

Previous work has shown that the information value of requests can be manipulated by
controlling the sparsity of hypotheses, the degree to which category members are rare or …