"The effect of motivation of judgment depends on the difficulty of the judgment": Correction.

Reports an error in the original article by B. W. Pelham and E. Neter (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995[Apr], Vol 68[4], 581–594). The title of the article reported on page 581 was incorrect; however, the title was correct in the table of contents. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 1995-24088-001.) Three studies tested the hypothesis that high levels of motivation facilitate accurate judgments when judgments are relatively easy but debilitate judgments when judgments are relatively difficult. Each study focused on a different judgmental heuristic, and each made use of different motivation and task difficulty manipulations. In all 3 studies, high levels of motivation increased judgmental accuracy in the case of easy judgments and decreased judgmental accuracy in the case of difficult judgments. Theoretical implications and ecological limitations of these findings are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)