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Zeitschrift Fur Experimentelle Und Angewandte Psychologie
|January 1, 1994
Summary
Young adults prefer using personal experiences to justify their beliefs about controlling situations. This episodic justification leads to higher confidence and quicker responses when assessing task control.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Social Cognition
Context:
- Adolescents and young adults (17-20 years old) were studied.
- Ten distinct social tasks were presented orally.
Purpose:
- To investigate justifications for control beliefs in young adults.
- To determine preferred arguments (episodic, dispositional, control share, rules) for control beliefs.
- To measure response certainty and latency in relation to justification types.
Summary:
- References to dispositional attributes were most frequent, followed by episodes, control share, and rules.
- Response certainty and shortest latencies were associated with episodic justifications (personal experiences).
- General control belief did not influence argument preference or latency.
Impact:
- Highlights the preference for episodic reasoning in self-assessment of control.
- Suggests personal experiences are key to confident control judgments.
- Provides insights into cognitive processes underlying control beliefs in emerging adulthood.
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