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Towards a Balanced Social Psychology: Causes, Consequences and Cures
for the Problem-seeking Approach to Social Behavior and Cognition
by
Joachim I. Krueger and David C. Funder
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Krueger/Referees/
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Towards a Balanced Social Psychology: Causes, Consequences and Cures
for the Problem-seeking Approach to Social Behavior and Cognition
by Joachim I. Krueger and David C. Funder
ABSTRACT: Mainstream social psychology focuses on how people
characteristically violate norms of action through social misbehaviors
such as conformity, obedience, and failures to help. Likewise, they are
seen to violate norms of reasoning through cognitive errors such as misuse
of social information, self-enhancement, and an over-readiness to
attribute dispositional characteristics. The causes of this negative
research emphasis include the apparent informativeness of norm violation,
the status of good behavior and judgment as unconfirmable null hypotheses,
and the allure of counter-intuitive findings. The shortcomings of this
orientation include frequently erroneous imputations of error, findings of
mutually contradictory errors, incoherent interpretations of error, an
inability to explain the sources of behavioral or cognitive achievement,
and the inhibition of generalized theory. Possible remedies include
increased attention to the complete range of behavior and judgmental
accomplishment, analytic reforms emphasizing effect sizes and Bayesian
inference, and a theoretical paradigm able to account for both the sources
of accomplishment and of error. A more balanced social psychology would
yield not only a more positive view of human nature, but also an improved
understanding of the bases of good behavior and accurate judgment,
coherent explanations of occasional lapses, and theoretically-grounded
suggestions for improvement.
KEYWORDS: Bayesian inference; biases; normative models; personality;
positive psychology; rationality; reasoning; social behavior, social
judgment; social psychology
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