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    "pk": 31788,
    "title": "Attenuation of Belief Perserverance In a Covariation Judgement Task",
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    "abstract": "A wide variety of judgment tasks have shown that\nonce a reasoner favors a hypothesis, encountering\nevidence which contradicts it might not, in and of\nitself, dislodge that hypothesis. T h e interaction of\nprior belief and n e w evidence w a s studied in a\ncovariation judgment task where subjects monitored\nmultiple predictor-outcome relationships. Each\nrelationship w a s programmed to reflect a strong\npositive contingency in a first phase, but in the\nsecond phase the contingency w a s negative,\ndisconfirming the acquired expectation. For two of\nthese relationships, the negative evidence w a s framed\nas positive evidence for alternative relationships,\nwhile in a third relationship, the negative evidence\nw a s not presented as supporting alternative\nexplanations. Subjective contingency estimates\nindicated that the negative contingency w a s\nrecognized in all three conditions. Belief\nperseverance, as measured by the likelihood of\npredicting the outcome on trials where the original\npredictor variable w a s present, w a s the strongest in\nthe condition v^thout alternatives. These results\nsupport the notion that belief change is a function of\nthe negative evidence pertaining to that belief and the\npresence of alternative explanations which seek their\nsupport from that same evidence.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Submitted Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Frederic",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vallee-Tourangeau",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "A.G.",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Baker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1993-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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