Applying sampling theories to attitude learning in a virtual school class environment

According to sampling theories of attitude formation, evaluative learning depends on the sampling in the environment. We investigated teachers’ student evaluations in a simulated school class. Two experiments were designed to test distinct implications of experience-sampling models. While the model...

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Hauptverfasser: Fiedler, Klaus (VerfasserIn) , Wöllert, Franz (VerfasserIn) , Tauber, Benjamin (VerfasserIn) , Heß, Philipp (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 13 September 2013
In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes
Year: 2013, Jahrgang: 122, Heft: 2, Pages: 222-231
ISSN:0749-5978
DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.08.001
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.08.001
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597813000769
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Verfasserangaben:Klaus Fiedler, Franz Wöllert, Benjamin Tauber, Philipp Hess
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Zusammenfassung:According to sampling theories of attitude formation, evaluative learning depends on the sampling in the environment. We investigated teachers’ student evaluations in a simulated school class. Two experiments were designed to test distinct implications of experience-sampling models. While the model advanced by Fazio, Eiser, and Shook (2004) and Denrell (2005) led to the prediction of a negativity effect through asymmetric depolarization, another model (Fiedler, 1996) suggested a positivity effect through asymmetric polarization. Findings supported the latter contention. The selective tendency to oversample good students while neglecting weaker students was not radical enough to prevent the correction of negative impressions, precluding a negativity effect. Instead, extended selective sampling led to gradually increasing polarization of positive impressions, and facilitated detection of positive performance changes. While these findings can be reconciled with the Fazio-Denrell model, they highlight the crucial role of auxiliary psychological assumptions about attitude learning, as distinguished from the formal model itself.
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ISSN:0749-5978
DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2013.08.001