The Growth Heuristic?: Investigating the Mechanisms for Presumptions of Improvement
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Antoun, Jillian
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eng
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Social Psychology , Social Cognition , Judgment and Decision Making
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People presume improvement over time to be more likely than stability or decline, even in domains unrelated to themselves. Two studies were conducted to investigate the mechanism driving these presumptions. I hypothesized this effect to operate under heuristic pathways. Study 1 examined whether situational differences in intuitive versus reflective thinking were related to people’s presumption of improvement over time. Study 2 tested whether a manipulation of intuitive versus reflective thinking via an accountability prompt would influence presumptions of improvement. Both studies provided a successful replication of our prior research but failed to provide evidence of the growth bias operating through heuristic processing.
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