1982
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.8.4.582
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Loci of contextual effects in judgment.

Abstract: Three experiments investigated the loci of contextual effects in judgment, Experiment 1 demonstrated the effect of stimulus spacing on category ratings and magnitude estimations of the darkness of dot patterns. Variations in the stimulus spacing were shown to affect both category ratings and magnitude estimations in a similar fashion. Experiment 2 was designed to determine whether contextual effects due to stimulus spacing influence the scale values or the judgment function. Subjects judged "differences" and "… Show more

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“…However, if the elaborated model set w at .5, as in Experiment 1, it would overestimate the effects of skewing shown in Figure 15. In previous re- In a recent study using simultaneous presentations (Mellers & Birnbaum, 1982), subjects rated dot patterns presented on a single page in either a positively or negatively skewed set. The effects of skewing did not differ much between 5-and 100-point scales; for both, the range-frequency weighting (w) was close to .5.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, if the elaborated model set w at .5, as in Experiment 1, it would overestimate the effects of skewing shown in Figure 15. In previous re- In a recent study using simultaneous presentations (Mellers & Birnbaum, 1982), subjects rated dot patterns presented on a single page in either a positively or negatively skewed set. The effects of skewing did not differ much between 5-and 100-point scales; for both, the range-frequency weighting (w) was close to .5.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…How a person ranks relative to others is clearly an important factor in how people evaluate that person's test score (Mellers & Birnbaum, 1982;Wedell et al, 1989), income (Mellers, 1983(Mellers, , 1986Smith et al, 1989), and attractiveness , to name just a few dimensions. The principle of using ranks to value stimuli is the frequency principle, and it appears to have wide generality.…”
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“…This outcome indicates a substantial relativistic component to cross-modal matching. Several investigators have argued that cross-modal matches are not absolute but relative, that they depend primarily on context (Cohen, 1934;Mellers & Birnbaum, 1982; see also K. Smith & Hardy, 1961). Moreover, the large relativistic component to the judgment of duration as well as intensity suggests that such phenomena may be widespread.…”
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