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Testing Hypotheses about Other People

The Role of the Hypothesis

University of Minnesota

Bruce Campbell

University of Minnesota

This investigation examined the influence of the manner in which hypotheses about other people. are framed on the strategies that individuals formulate to test these hypotheses. Male and female participants formulated question-asking strategies to test hypotheses about other people. For some participants, hypotheses were framed exclusively in terms of attributes that would confirm the hypothesis. For other participants, hypotheses were framed both in terms of attributes that would confirm and in terms of attributes that would disconfirm the hypothesis. In each case participants planned to test their hypotheses by preferentially soliciting, by means of the questions they chose to ask, behavioral evidence that would confirm their hypotheses.

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