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The inverse forecast effect

Clarke, David; Blake, Holly

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Authors

David Clarke



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
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