Judging psychopathology: Expectation and contrast

Context-induced Contrast and Assimilation in Judging Supportiveness

Specificity in Contrast Effects: Judgments of Psychopathology

Three experiments were conducted to explore the specificity of the contrast effect in judgments of psychopathology. In the first two studies, respondents initially attempted to infer whether each item in a series of behavior samples (vocabulary definitions in one study, handwriting samples in the second) came from a schizophrenic or a nonschizophrenic patient. Some respondents were presented wi...

A Study on Preference Orderings of Mathematical expectation, Expected Utility and Distorted Expectation

One of the challenges for decision-makers in insurance and finance is choosing the appropriate criteria for making decisions. Mathematical expectation, expected utility, and distorted expectation are the three most common measures in this area. In this article, we study these three criteria, and by providing some examples, we review and compare the decisions made by each measure.

Judging Good and Evil

Overview The use of " anti-virus " techniques in many modern worms recalls two stories: the " war " between virus writers and the possibility of a beneficial virus. This article examines both in light of recent events in the virus world. In early 2004, the release of Netsky began a rash of articles discussing " vigilante " coders trying to stop the spread of other worms. The war between Netsky'...

Judging up and down.

In Experiment I subjects were asked to judge whether an arrow was pointing up or pointing down at various heights inside a surrounding rectangle. They were faster on an arrow pointing up the higher it was in the rectangle, and they were faster on an arrow pointing down the lower it was in the rectangle. Experiments 2, 3, and 4 were designed to test sources for this"congruity effect." The intrus...