Oblivious to the obvious : an interhemispheric interaction approach to judgments of the self and others
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: How accurate are we in our judgments of the self versus others?Two experiments were designed to investigate strength of handedness as a moderator of these judgments using the Attitude-Attribution paradigm of Jones and Harris (1967) and the above and below average effects (Kruger, 1999).The results of the Attitude-Attribution experiment found no strength of handedness effects on casual attributions of behavior.The above and below average effects were investigated using 20 easy or hard trivia questions to elicit these opposite effects.The results showed that, in support of the hypothesis, strong handers showed the above and below average effect to a greater degree than did mixed handers, whom did not exhibit the below average effect.Results are explained using an interhemispheric interaction approach with greater access to right hemisphere processes resulting in better accuracy when comparing the performance of the self to others.professors, like Dr. Alice Skeens, that have given such invaluable guidance, but I will try my best to utilize all of the guidance towards the further understanding of the mind and how it makes us who we are.
Author: Michael Douglas Lanning
Institution: University of Toledo
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W851844096