A further look at student acceptance of general personality interpretations
Snyder and Larson found that telling students an interpretation was written for them rather than for people in general raised its acceptance. Computer-scored and handwritten profiles did not differ significantly, and students who saw events as shaped by outside forces gave higher acceptance.
Snyder and Larson found that telling students an interpretation was written for them rather than for people in general raised its acceptance. Computer-scored and handwritten profiles did not differ significantly, and students who saw events as shaped by outside forces gave higher acceptance.
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doi:10.1037/h0032899 https://doi.org/10.1037/h0032899. Findings reported as described in Dickson & Kelly (1985).