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This article reviews controversies that have surrounded research on interpersonal accuracy for the last 50 years by providing and justifying a probabilistic conception of accuracy and by addressing the following issues: Whether accuracy can be distinguished from logical coherence; whether accuracy research provides insight into cognitive processes; why accuracy in perception of a behavior or trait must be distinguished from accuracy in explanations for that behavior or trait; how to distinguish self-fulfilling prophecy from accuracy; why distinguishing among several levels of analysis is crucial with respect to evaluating the accuracy of social stereotypes; whether accuracy research helps create or alleviate social problems; how accuracy can sometimes lead to discrimination; similarities and differences between establishing scientific construct validity and the accuracy of lay social beliefs; and the nature of some of the contributions to understanding social perception provided by componential and noncomponential approaches to the study of accuracy.
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perceived epistemic authority, probabilistic realism, ascribed epistemic authority, procedural fairness models, defective decision processes, group engagement model, perceiver main effect, procedural fairness manipulation, procedural fairness effects, uncertainty management model, symbolic racism items, salience moderated, nonracial attitudes, racial policy preferences, procedural fairness information, ubiquity model, racism belief system, target main effect, greater epistemic authority, intergroup salience, perceived group differences, decategorization model, groupthink phenomena, intergroup anxiety, social dilemma literature
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Journal of Personality, New York, Academic Press, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, United States, Los Angeles, Northern Ireland, San Diego, African Americans, American Psychological Association, Cambridge University Press, Psychology Press, Annual Review of Psychology, American Psychologist, New Haven, Free Press, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press, British Journal of Social Psychology, Guilford Press, Jim Crow, European Review of Social Psychology, Harvard University Press, Elsevier Inc
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