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Bybee, Carl R. – Communication Research--An International Quarterly, 1981
Experiment dealt with selecting political candidates. Results provide some limited support for the hypothesized importance of matching information presentation formats to decision-making strategies. However, the most effective pattern of matching turned out to be in the opposite direction of the prediction. Discusses methodological issues. (PD)
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making

Beatty, Paulette T.; And Others – 1981
One of a series of instructional booklets designed to introduce adult education program planners to the basic concepts integral to and alternative strategies for conducting needs assessments, this instructional booklet deals with determining how to summarize information. Described first is the relationship of the process of determining how to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Definitions
Comparison of Bayesian and Regression Approaches to the Study of Information Processing in Judgment.
Slovic, Paul; Lichtenstein, Sarah – 1970
Most research on information utilization in judgment and decision making has followed two basic approaches: "regression" and "Bayesian." Each has characteristic tasks and characteristic information that must be processed to accomplish these tasks. There has been a tendency to work within a single approach with minimal communication between the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cues