Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing

by Klaus Fiedler and Eva Walther

Book Overview

Traditional social hypotheses have a built-in tendency to verify themselves and so involuntarily resist attempts at stereotype change or correction. This is the insight demonstrated and discussed as the start point for an alternative approach to the problem of stereotyping and hypothesis testing. Stereotyping as Inductive Hypothesis Testing explicates the proposition that many stereotypes originate not so much in individual brains, but in the stimulus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138883093
• ISBN13: 9781138883093
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"