Multiple-Cue Judgment in Individual and Dyadic Learning
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چکیده
Most studies of multiple-cue judgment focus on learning by individuals. In a multiple-cue judgment task we examined if people acquire rule or exemplar knowledge as a function of learning the task alone or in dyads. The expectation was that learning in dyads should promote explicit rule-based thinking as a consequence of increased verbalization (a social abstraction effect) and produce a larger joint exemplar knowledge base (an exemplar pooling effect). The results suggest more accurate judgments by dyads, an exemplar pooling effect, but no evidence for a social abstraction effect. In contrast to previous research, the social interaction had beneficial effects that allowed participants working in dyads to surpass their combined individual performance.
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