An Experimental Investigation of Modes of Resolution as Applied to Inconsistent Information: Utilization of Terms of Disposition
Chieko Yoshihara · THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY · 1994
This study reports on the results of three experiments investigating the modes of resolution as applied to inconsistent information. 90 subjects were given 11 terms of disposition which involved the discrepant dispositions. The task was to describe the impressions of stimulus person. The results showed it was confirmed that 80% of subjects described the person who had both discrepant dispositions. And 7 categories for modes of resolution as applied to inconsistent information were classified. Then it was shown that the estimations of the “logicalconsistency”, “reality of aperson image” and “person'smindset” weredifferent between groups of modes of resolution (I, II, III). In other words when we integrate inconsistent information in terms of more organaized mode, the estimation of the person's mindset was higher. Therefore it was suggested that there is a close relationship between the organized integration on the inconsistent information and the level of cognitive resolution.