... Powerful and Unpersuaded: The Implications of Power for Confidence and Advice Taking Kelly E.... more ... Powerful and Unpersuaded: The Implications of Power for Confidence and Advice Taking Kelly E. See New York University Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison New York University Naomi B. Rothman University of Illinois Jack B. Soll Duke University ...
This paper describes a decision analysis methodology to evaluate academic programs. It avoids the... more This paper describes a decision analysis methodology to evaluate academic programs. It avoids the shortcoming of the well-known evaluations of universities and academic programs produced by the public media. In addition to evaluating traditional departments and schools, the methodology is designed to evaluate interdisciplinary programs or fields that typically span many areas of a university, such as operations research, risk
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2006
In 3 studies, participants viewed sequences of multiattribute objects (e.g., colored shapes) appe... more In 3 studies, participants viewed sequences of multiattribute objects (e.g., colored shapes) appearing with varying frequencies and judged the likelihood of the attributes of those objects. Judged probabilities reflected a compromise between (a) the frequency with which each attribute appeared and (b) the ignorance prior probability cued by the number of distinct values that the focal attribute could take on. Thus, judged probabilities were partition dependent, varying with the number of events into which the state space was subjectively divided. This bias was diminished among participants more confident in what they learned, was strong and insensitive to level of confidence when ignorance priors were especially salient, and required ignorance priors to be salient only when probabilities were elicited (not during encoding).
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009
Many decisions made by authorities pose uncertain consequences for the individuals affected by th... more Many decisions made by authorities pose uncertain consequences for the individuals affected by them, yet people must determine the extent to which they will support the change. Integrating the social justice and behavioral decision theory literatures, the article argues that individuals determine their support for proposed initiatives by assessing how knowledgeable they feel and using 2 main sources of information more or less heavily: their prediction of how the outcome of the initiative is likely to affect them or the perceived fairness of the decision maker. Three studies (2 experiments, 1 longitudinal field survey) assessing support for proposed public policies reveal that when individuals feel very knowledgeable they rely more on their prediction of how the outcome will affect them, whereas when they feel less knowledgeable they rely more on an overall impression of procedural fairness. The theoretical account and findings shed interdisciplinary insights into how people use process and outcome cues in reacting to decisions under uncertainty and ambiguity.
... Powerful and Unpersuaded: The Implications of Power for Confidence and Advice Taking Kelly E.... more ... Powerful and Unpersuaded: The Implications of Power for Confidence and Advice Taking Kelly E. See New York University Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison New York University Naomi B. Rothman University of Illinois Jack B. Soll Duke University ...
This paper describes a decision analysis methodology to evaluate academic programs. It avoids the... more This paper describes a decision analysis methodology to evaluate academic programs. It avoids the shortcoming of the well-known evaluations of universities and academic programs produced by the public media. In addition to evaluating traditional departments and schools, the methodology is designed to evaluate interdisciplinary programs or fields that typically span many areas of a university, such as operations research, risk
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2006
In 3 studies, participants viewed sequences of multiattribute objects (e.g., colored shapes) appe... more In 3 studies, participants viewed sequences of multiattribute objects (e.g., colored shapes) appearing with varying frequencies and judged the likelihood of the attributes of those objects. Judged probabilities reflected a compromise between (a) the frequency with which each attribute appeared and (b) the ignorance prior probability cued by the number of distinct values that the focal attribute could take on. Thus, judged probabilities were partition dependent, varying with the number of events into which the state space was subjectively divided. This bias was diminished among participants more confident in what they learned, was strong and insensitive to level of confidence when ignorance priors were especially salient, and required ignorance priors to be salient only when probabilities were elicited (not during encoding).
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009
Many decisions made by authorities pose uncertain consequences for the individuals affected by th... more Many decisions made by authorities pose uncertain consequences for the individuals affected by them, yet people must determine the extent to which they will support the change. Integrating the social justice and behavioral decision theory literatures, the article argues that individuals determine their support for proposed initiatives by assessing how knowledgeable they feel and using 2 main sources of information more or less heavily: their prediction of how the outcome of the initiative is likely to affect them or the perceived fairness of the decision maker. Three studies (2 experiments, 1 longitudinal field survey) assessing support for proposed public policies reveal that when individuals feel very knowledgeable they rely more on their prediction of how the outcome will affect them, whereas when they feel less knowledgeable they rely more on an overall impression of procedural fairness. The theoretical account and findings shed interdisciplinary insights into how people use process and outcome cues in reacting to decisions under uncertainty and ambiguity.
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