Supplemental Material for Forming Impressions From Self-Truncated Samples of Traits−Interplay of Thurstonian and Brunswikian Sampling Effects
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2021
Throughout the simulation procedure presented in the original paper, we had to cut-off several directions and variants of the presented simulation procedure in order to come up with an explicable, brief and convenient result.Here, we want to illustrate the claims made towards the end of the simulation section.We will therefore focus on one parameter at a time and briefly discuss the implications resulting from alternative parameter settings.Certainly, the results presented here will as well represent a relatively narrow window of possible realizations.Yet, we believe that this summary will further emphasize that the two main phenomena discussed in the paper, namely a negative sample-size dependency of judgment strength in self-truncated sampling and Thurstonian regressive shrinkage of this relation for yoked controls, can in fact be overwritten or reversed in specific contexts, but the overall picture clearly supports the assumption that the phenomena are generally robust and meaningful for most contexts (i.e.parameters settings).