Author Question: What occurred in the research by Balletic and Dunning (2007) in which participants were asked to ... (Read 139 times)

yoroshambo · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

What occurred in the research by Balletic and Dunning (2007) in which participants were asked to walk across a college campus wearing an embarrassing costume?

a. Students in the high-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the lowchoice condition.
b. Students in the low-choice condition underestimated how far they had walked relative to those in the highchoice condition.
c. Students with insufficient justification for their embarrassing actions overestimated how far they had walkedrelative to those with sufficient justification.
d. The motivation to reduce dissonance had no effect on participants' visual representations of the naturalenvironment.

Question 2

To increase the accuracy of performance appraisals, it is recommended that managers

a. maintain at least a two-week delay between performance and evaluations.
b. use a single rater rather than multiple raters so as to avoid discrepancies.
c. educate evaluators about the biases of social perception.
d. train evaluators to focus their ratings on the middle of rating scales.