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    "pk": 26911,
    "title": "Selective Information Sampling and the In-Group Heterogeneity Effect",
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    "abstract": "People often perceive their in-groups as more heterogeneousthan their out-groups. We propose an information samplingexplanation for this in-group heterogeneity effect. We analyzea model in which an agent forms beliefs and attitudes aboutsocial groups from her experience. Consistent with robust evi-dence from the social sciences, we assume that people are morelikely to interact again with in-group members than with out-group members. This implies that people obtain larger sam-ples of information about in-groups than about out-groups. Be-cause estimators of variability tend to be right-skewed, but lessso when sample size is large, sampled in-group variability willtend to be higher than sampled out-group variability. This im-plies that even agents that process information correctly – evenif they are naive intuitive statisticians – will be subject to thein-group heterogeneity effect. Our sampling mechanism com-plements existing explanations that rely on how informationabout in-group and out-group members is processed.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information sampling"
        },
        {
            "word": "Judgment Bias"
        },
        {
            "word": "Perceptionof Variability."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22k9j1d8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elizaveta",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Konovalova",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Universitat Pompeu Fabra",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gael",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Le Mens",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Universitat Pompeu Fabra",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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