Disciplinary Judgments as Information Integration
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 104 (2) , 197-205
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1978.9924061
Abstract
Male engineering students in India (N = 36) evaluated complaint cases against hypothetical employees according to (a) how serious was the offense and (b) how much punishment they would recommend. Complaint cases were constructed from a 4 × 3 design, using rule-infraction by an employee and his performance record as stimulus factors. The prediction that plots of the four rule-infraction (row) factor data across the performance record (column) factor should appear as separate parallel curves received good empirical support, showing the operation of a constant-weight averaging rule in disciplinary judgments. Results confirmed the previous work on social perception and cognition, and illustrated a potentially useful methodology for studying information integration in disciplinary judgments.Keywords
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