Worry about victimization, crime information processing, and social categorization biases

Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization

Stereotypes are important simplifying assumptions we use for navigating the social world, associating traits with social categories. These beliefs can be used to infer an individual’s likely social category from observed traits (a diagnostic inference) or to make inferences about an individual’s unknown traits based on their putative social category (a predictive inference). We argue that these...

Social Information Processing Mechanisms and Victimization: A Literature Review.

The aim of the current literature review, which is based on 64 empirical studies, was to assess to what extent mechanisms of the Social Information Processing (SIP) model of Crick and Dodge (1994) are related to victimization. The reviewed studies have provided support for the relation between victimization and several social information processing mechanisms, especially the interpretation of c...

Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry About Crime, and Precautionary Behavior Among College Women in the Post-Clery Era

Social anxiety and information processing biases: An integrated theoretical perspective.

Models of anxiety disorders posit that information processing biases towards threat may result from an imbalance between top-down attentional control processes and bottom-up attentional processes, such that anxiety could reduce the influence of the former and increase the influence of the latter. However, researchers have recently pointed to limitations of the top-down/bottom-up terminology and...

Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing∗

This paper explores the connection between bounded memory and biases in information processing. An infinitely-lived decision maker receives a sequence of signals which provide partial information about the true “state of the world”; when this process terminates, which happens with probability η after each signal, he makes a decision and earns a payoff which depends on the true state. The agent ...