Nonproportional sampling and the amplification of correlations

Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 715-720

  Kareev, Yaakov ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 33746849358     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01771.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Allan, L.G. (1993). Human contingency judgments: Rule based or associative? Psychological Bulletin, 114, 435-448.
2. Alloy, L.B., & Tabachnik, N. (1984). Assessment of covariation by humans and animals: The joint influence of prior expectations and current situational information. Psychological Review, 91, 112-149.
3. Fiedler, K. (2000). Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling approach to judgment biases. Psychological Review, 107, 659-676.
4. Fiedler, K., Brinkmann, B., Betsch, T., & Wild, B. (2000). A sampling approach to biases in conditional probability judgments: Beyond base rate neglect and statistical format. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 399-418.
5. Goldstone, R.L. (1994). Influences of categorization on perceptual discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 178-200.
6. Goldstone, R.L., Lippa, Y., & Shiffrin, R.M. (2001). Altering object representations through category learning. Cognition, 78, 27-43.
7. Griffin, D., & Tversky, A. (1992). The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 411-435.
8. Harnad, S. (1987). Categorical perception. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
9. Kareev, Y. (2000). Seven (indeed, plus or minus two) and the detection of correlation. Psychological Review, 107, 397-402.
10. Killeen, P.R. (2005). An alternative to null-hypothesis significance tests. Psychological Science, 16, 345-353.
11. Krueger, J. (1991). Accentuation effects and illusory change in exemplar-based category learning. European Journal of Social Psychology, 21, 37-48.
12. Krueger, J., & Rothbart, M. (1990). Contrast and accentuation effects in category learning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 651-653.
13. Kruglanski, A.W. (1989). Lay epistemics and human knowledge: Cognitive and motivational bases. New York: Plenum.
14. Kruglanski, A.W. (1990). Lay epistemic theory in social cognitive psychology. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 181-197.
15. Kruglanski, A.W., & Webster, D.M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing." Psychological Review, 103, 263-283.
16. Livingston, K.R., Andrews, J.K., & Harnad, S. (1998). Categorical perception effects induced by category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 732-753.
17. Peterson, C.R., & Beach, L.F. (1967). Man as an intuitive statistician. Psychological Bulletin, 68, 29-46.
18. Pollard, P. (1984). Intuitive judgments of proportions, means, and variances: A review. Current Psychological Research and Review, 3, 5-18.
19. Tajfel, H. (1957). Value and the perceptual judgment of magnitude. Psychological Review, 64, 192-204.