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- Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making
- Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Historical Review of Sampling Perspectives and Major Paradigms
- Part II Sampling Mechanisms
- Part III Consequences of Selective Sampling
- Part IV Truncation and Stopping Rules
- Part V Sampling as a Tool in Social Environments
- Chapter 16 Heuristic Social Sampling
- Chapter 17 Social Sampling for Judgments and Predictions of Societal Trends
- Chapter 18 Group-Motivated Sampling
- Chapter 19 Opinion Homogenization and Polarization
- Part VI Computational Approaches
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Social Sampling for Judgments and Predictions of Societal Trends
from Part V - Sampling as a Tool in Social Environments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making
- Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Historical Review of Sampling Perspectives and Major Paradigms
- Part II Sampling Mechanisms
- Part III Consequences of Selective Sampling
- Part IV Truncation and Stopping Rules
- Part V Sampling as a Tool in Social Environments
- Chapter 16 Heuristic Social Sampling
- Chapter 17 Social Sampling for Judgments and Predictions of Societal Trends
- Chapter 18 Group-Motivated Sampling
- Chapter 19 Opinion Homogenization and Polarization
- Part VI Computational Approaches
- Index
- References
Summary
People have the ability to estimate frequencies of different behaviors, beliefs, and intentions of others, allowing them to fit into their immediate social worlds, learn from, and cooperate with others. However, psychology has produced a long list of apparent biases in social cognition. We show that this apparent contradiction can be resolved by understanding how cognitive processes underlying social judgments interact with the properties of social and task environments. We describe our social sampling model that incorporates this interaction and can explain biases in people’s estimates of broader populations. We also show that asking people about their social circles produces better predictions of elections than asking about their own voting intentions, provides good description of population attributes, and helps predict people’s future voting and vaccination behavior.
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- Sampling in Judgment and Decision Making , pp. 385 - 416Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023