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Not just a passion for negativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Yechiel Klar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69778Israel
Uzi Levi*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69778Israel
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Abstract:

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The Krueger & Funder (K&F) article would gain in constructive value if the authors spelled out what role the heuristics-and-biases approach could play in balancing the field of social cognition, lowering the burden of blame on it, cautioning overly enthusiastic readers from championing the “enough-with-the-biases” movement, and acknowledging that not all biases are caused by minorities.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Notes

1. These problems are: (1) “Inventing new (or distinct) names for old (or same) concepts” (p. 873); (2) fragmentation (p. 873); and (3) attraction for “empirical stuff, in particular of the ‘cute’ variety” (p. 871).