Perceived Accuracy of Favorable and Unfavorable Psychological Feedback
Basic and Applied Social PsychologyPublished 1 February 1995
Peter H. Ditto, Andrea Fox Boardman
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Abstract
Seventy-nine college students completed a personality inventory and then received a bogus psychological profile that included a highly self-descriptive personality description and a diagnosis based on that description. The personality description was identical for all participants. The diagnostic information varied across two dimensions. Half the subjects received favorable diagnostic feedback indicating that they were particularly resistant to future problems; the other half received unfavorable diagnostic feedback indicating that they were particularly prone to future problems. Half the subjects received information indicating that they were resistant (of prone) to future medical problems; the other half were told that they were resistant (of prone) to future psychological problems. Subjects in a control condition received the personality description with no diagnostic information. Compared to those in favorable feedback conditions, subjects in unfavorable feedback conditions (a) rated both their diagno...
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