Browsing by Author "Singh, Ramadhar"
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Allocators' maturity as an explanation for inconsistency in cognitive algebra of reward distribution
Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)According to equity theory, reward for a person should be proportional to his input or deservingness. Experimental tests of this ratio rule with information integration theory have not yielded consistent results. The same ... -
Attitude and Social Cognition
Singh, Ramadhar (2012-09-28): This chapter reviews research in attitudes and Social cognition in India during 1975-84. The areas covered are attitudes, impression formation, attribution and judgment And decision. It is noted that quality of research ... -
An attribution theoretical analysis of consumers satisfaction and dissatisfaction with products
Jha, Mithileswar (1985)Satisfaction and dissatisfaction of a consumer with a product depend on his initial expectations and the extent to which these expectations are fulfilled (confirmed) or not Fulfilled (disconfirmed) According to attribution ... -
Attributions of Performance by Children, Parents, Teachers, and Managers
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Averaging as a general principle of information integration
Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-21)Virtually all situations require a judgment or decision on the basis of several separate pieces of information. Grading a term paper, evaluating a job applicant, selecting a leader, or simply listening to a speaker, all ... -
Averaging model analyses of teacher expectations of performance from students varying in motivation and ability
Singh, Ramadhar; Shobha, Sneh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1986-11-01)Although there have been numerous studies of the impact of teacher expectations on student performance, the manner in which expectations are formed has remained unexplored. The present research tested the hypothesis that ... -
Children's Judgements of Personal Happiness
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Cognitive Algebra of Exam Performance: tests of Hypotheses of Cultural Difference, Task Difficulty and Imputations
Singh, Ramadhar (2012-09-28)In a series of six month experiments, prediction of exam performance from information about motivation and ability as well as about motivation alone or ability Alone of students was studied. The factorial plot of the ... -
Contributions to judgment and decision
Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)This paper presents an overview of the theoretical, methodological, and applied contributions that the author's research program on prediction of performance has made to the literature on judgement and decision. It is shown ... -
Cross national difference in overconfidence
Lee, Ju-Whei; Yates, Frank J.; Sninotsuka, Hiromi; Singh, Ramadhar; Onglatcc, Mary Lou Uy; Yen, Naishing; Gupta, Meenakshi; Bhatnagar, Deepti (1995-10-06)Under board conditions, people are overconfident in the correctness of their answers to general knowledge questions. Previous research has documented reliable cross-national differences in such overconfidence; overconfidence ... -
Culture development and task differences in prediction of performance: an information integration analysis
Srivastava, Prabha; Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)Past research showed that Indian children average information about motivation and ability in prediction of performance. However, a multiplying-type rule develops from an adding-type rule in American children. The present ... -
Determinants of error variance in individual child analysis for studying integrational capacity
Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)In research on information integration by children, integrational capacity of a child is ascertained by the number of statistically significant main effects in analysis of variance for the child. Such an approach has an ... -
Do stress and personality determine health of the Indian executive?
Ramesh, C. M. (1988)Many researchers have concluded that stress causes illness. This conclusion is based on studies with cross sectional designs that found correlations between stress and illness. However, this conclusion has been criticized ... -
Expected performance in Human/Computer applications as a function of user proficiency and system power
Norman, Kent L.; Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)Managers and students of management in India predicted performance in human/computer systems from information about the user's proficiency with computers and the power of the system. User proficiency was defined as the ... -
Experimental social psychology is real and scientific - a reply to Durganand Sinha
Singh, Ramadhar (2010-03-14)In his critique of experimental social psychology, Durganand Sinha views experimentation as an inadequate approach to complex social phenomena, and complains that social psychology are confined to problems for which methods ... -
Extent of exposure and satisfaction with exposure as predictors of attitudes towards women as managers
Swamy, Ranjini (1988)Several organizations appear to discriminate against women. This discrimination is commonly traced to the stereotypic attitudes of male managers toward women as managers. Reducing discrimination, therefore, requires changing ... -
Identification and measurement of work-dedication
Nagananda Kumar, P. B. (1986)People frequently use the word dedication to make social attributions and judgements. The imprecision of literary definitions of dedication restricts their operational use. Consequently, a more precise formulation of the ... -
Influence of children on parent's purchase of health beverages
Kshirsagar, Bhushan; Mehta, Sanjay D. (Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), 1986)The use of television as an advertising medium is fast gaining popularity and acceptance by both the advertise and the viewer. The advent of T.V. and its introduction in India has in a big way opened this segment to ... -
An information integration theory analysis of attractiveness of bus systems
Singh, Ramadhar; Palaniswamy, S. P.; Pradhan, Y. N. (2010-03-14)Actual bus riders received information about frequency of service, fare, and comfort aspects of some bus systems and indicated how much they would like to travel in those buses. Information integration theory, which deals ... -
Information reliability and prediction of performance: role of initial opinion in multiplying model
Singh, Ramadhar; Bhargava, Shivganesh; Norman, Kent L. (2010-03-14)All the models of information integration predict that the greater the reliability of an information, the greater its effectiveness. However, they disagree with the relationship between reliability of information of one ...