May the Intentional Candidate Win: The Effect of Global Performance Information on Intentionality Attributions and Managerial Hot‐Hand Predictions
João Niza Braga,
Sofia Jacinto
Abstract:In organizational contexts, managers often have to judge and predict others' performance. Previous research has consistently shown that when predicting someone's performance, people expect that a local sequence of successful outcomes will continue—the hot‐hand. The present work proposes that hot‐hand predictions occur when local streaks are dispositionally attributed to the agents' intentionality and explores how the inclusion of global performance success rates may guide intentionality inferences and moderate… Show more
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