David Clarke
The inverse forecast effect
Clarke, David; Blake, Holly
Abstract
Social behaviour depends crucially on the way events are linked over time, and on how these linkages are perceived. From a given event, people may be able to infer what followed, or what preceded it. However these two tasks are not as similar as they may seem. Two experiments are reported in which participants had to infer subsequent events given earlier ones, or else the reverse. Performance was consistently more accurate when working ‘backwards’. We call this the ‘inverse forecast effect’. It raises issues about the strategies people use to predict and understand everyday events, and about just how the future is formed from the past.
Citation
Clarke, D., & Blake, H. (1997). The inverse forecast effect
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 1, 1997 |
Publication Date | Dec 14, 1997 |
Deposit Date | May 12, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | May 12, 2017 |
Journal | Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 4 |
Keywords | Prediction, Forecast, Sequence, Judgement, Hindsight, Scripts |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/702887 |
Contract Date | May 12, 2017 |
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