| Abstract: | Examined speculations by D. M. Dawes et al (see record 1977-25298-001) concerning the extent to which persons use their own responses in mixed-motive situations as a basis for predicting the behavior of others. 172 female undergraduates played a 1-trial Prisoner's Dilemma game and predicted the responses of their partner and a person in another dyad. As predicted, Ss, irrespective of the particular choice they had made, tended to attribute their own response to others. In many Ss, this attribution appeared to be self-justifying, in that it was specific to the S's partner. Even more frequently, Ss attributed their own response to both partner and nonpartner (i.e., a false consensus), although they also tended to be more confident about their prediction of their partner's choice. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
