Over-selective Responding in a Diagnostic Judgment Task

The Truth - Value Judgment Task

The truth-value judgment (TVJ) task has proved to be one of the most illuminating methods of assessing children's linguistic competence developed in recent years. The fundamental property of this task is that it requires the child simply to make a bipolar judgment about whether a statement accurately describes a particular situation alluded to in some context or preamble. The success of the tas...

Impact of Elaboration on Responding to Situational Judgment Test Items

Although faking has been identified as a potential problem in situational judgment tests (SJTs), no studies have investigated proactive approaches for controlling faking in SJTs. Therefore, this study examined the impact of elaboration on responding to SJT items. Elaboration was operationalized as reason-giving. Two hundred and forty-seven master students were assigned to either an honest or a ...

Partial-birth abortion: should moral judgment prevail over medical judgment?

Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible respiratory virus causing COVID-19, a disease that has become pandemic. It is the biggest public health concern of this century. The sudden emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly evolved into a pandemic that posed a serious threat to global health and economy Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, solving immediate problems and preventing problems are two ...

Diagnostic hypothesis generation and human judgment.

Diagnostic hypothesis-generation processes are ubiquitous in human reasoning. For example, clinicians generate disease hypotheses to explain symptoms and help guide treatment, auditors generate hypotheses for identifying sources of accounting errors, and laypeople generate hypotheses to explain patterns of information (i.e., data) in the environment. The authors introduce a general model of hum...