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This project focuses on what we call referent-specific judgments (i.e., judgments that require specific comparisons). They can have many forms—including comparative judgments, probability judgments, proportion estimates, and ranks—but the different forms seem vulnerable to similar biases. We present a Referent-Specific Judgment Framework (RSJF) aimed at providing a more organized understanding of these biases and the explanations that have been proposed for them across distinct literatures. Two studies tested predictions of RSJF as they apply to similarities and differences in bias among comparative and probability judgments that qualify as referent-specific judgments. The results revealed the expected similarities and differences, and they more generally supported the utility of theorizing about referent-specific judgments as a coherent class of judgments. |
