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The Textbook Case of Affirming the Consequent

Teaching Philosophy, 2001
L'auteur expose son raisonnement sur la tendance qu'ont les manuels a admettre que la plupart des gens etablissent des conclusions sans reflexion, qu'ils sont prisonniers de pensees automatiques qui leur permettent de retrouver une cause par sa consequence.
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The Social Consequences of Affirmative Action: Deleterious Effects on Perceptions of Groups

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1998
It has been suggested that the existence of affirmative action programs may create or exacerbate negative perceptions of groups that benefit from these programs. To test this hypothesis, the authors presented 51 participants with a (fictitious) editorial describing a relatively unfamiliar immigrant group in a positive manner and manipulated whether ...
Gregory R. Maio, Victoria M. Esses
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Thinking tools: The fallacy of affirming the consequent

Think, 2004
Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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Is the world a just place? Countering the negative consequences of pervasive discrimination by affirming the world as just

British Journal of Social Psychology, 2011
Two studies (a) explored the role of pervasiveness of discrimination (pervasive vs. rare) in determining targets' responses to discrimination, and (b) examined the extent to which threats to participants' worldview can account, in part, for detrimental effects of pervasive discrimination.
Stroebe, Katherine   +4 more
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Combining Self-Affirmation With the Extended Parallel Process Model: The Consequences for Motivation to Eat More Fruit and Vegetables

Health Communication, 2013
There is potential for fruitful integration of research using the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) with research using Self-affirmation Theory. However, to date no studies have attempted to do this. This article reports an experiment that tests whether (a) the effects of a self-affirmation manipulation add to those of EPPM variables in predicting
Lucy E, Napper   +2 more
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Affirmative action, duality of error, and the consequences of mispredicting the academic performance of african american college applicants

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2001
AbstractThe implications of different potential affirmative action policies depend on three factors: selection rate from the applicant pool, base rate of qualified applicants, and accuracy of performance predictions. A series of analyses was conducted under various assumptions concerning affirmative action plans, causes of racial differences in average
Jeryl L. Mumpower   +2 more
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The Stigma of Affirmative Action: A Stereotyping-Based Theory and Meta-Analytic Test of the Consequences for Performance

Academy of Management Journal, 2014
Affirmative action plans (AAPs) are designed to facilitate workplace success for members of the groups they target (e.g., women, ethnic minorities), yet may have the ironic effect of stigmatizing AAP targets and, in turn, decreasing their performance outcomes. Prior work has focused on the stigma of incompetence as the primary mechanism that links AAPs
Lisa M. Leslie   +2 more
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Fluctuating confidence: the dynamic consequences of true/false affirmatives and denials on how a listener appraises their personal past

Memory, 2018
The present study examined the mnemonic consequences of true/false denials and affirmatives on how a listener appraises their personal past. To this end, participants (listeners) rated the extent to which they were confident certain events occurred during their childhood.
Jolee, Davis   +5 more
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How pragmatic interpretations arise from conditionals: Profiling the Affirmation of the Consequent argument with reaction time and EEG measures

Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
Abstract Conditional reasoning consists in combining a conditional premise with a categorical premise and inferring a conclusion from them. Two well-known conditional arguments are Modus Ponens (MP: If P then Q; P//therefore Q), which is logically valid and Affirmation of the Consequent (AC: If P then Q; Q//therefore P), which is not.
Bonnefond, Mathilde   +6 more
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