Subjective Construal, Social Inference, and Human Misunderstanding

By Dale W. Griffin, L. Ross. 1991

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Reflexive and reflective judgment processes: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. (2003, background): “This ability to “go beyond the information given” is a major component of most theories hoping to explain the strengths and weaknesses of human social cognition (Bruner, 1957; Fiske & Taylor, 1991; Griffin & Ross, 1991).”
On Conceptualizing Self-Control as More Than the Effortful Inhibition of Impulses (2011, background): “…and behaviors do not necessarily reflect the objective features of their social worlds but rather their subjective interpretations or construals (e.g., Balcetis & Dunning, 2006; Bruner, 1957; Griffin & Ross, 1991; Hastorf & Cantril, 1954; Kunda, 1990; Proffitt, Stefanucci, Banton, & Epstein, 2003).”
The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. (2001, background): “The wag-the-dog illusion may therefore be one of the mechanisms underlying naive realism (Griffin & Ross, 1991; Robinson, Keltner, Ward, & Ross, 1995), the finding that people think that they see the world as it is whereas their opponents in a moral dispute are biased by ideology and self-interest.”
Optimizing assurance: the risk regulation system in relationships. (2006, background): “Given the biases inherent in social perception and people’s tendency to treat social perception as if it was veridical (Griffin & Ross, 1991; Kenny, 1994), people are not likely to believe they are loved unless they feel loved.”
Counterfactual Thinking and Entrepreneurial Self–Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Self–Esteem and Dispositional Affect (2013, background): “Affective dispositions will influence how context is perceived and interpreted (Griffin & Ross, 1991; Schacter, 1996).”
The effect of temporal distance on level of mental construal. (2002, background): “…and choice is based on the social cognitive view that people’s responses to social events are based on how they mentally construe those events (Griffin & Ross, 1991; Pennington & Hastie, 1988, 1993; Ross, 1990; Semin & Fiedler, 1988; Semin & Smith, 1999; Smith, 1998; Trafimow & Wyer, 1993;…”
Miscalibrated Predictions of Emotional Responses to Self-Promotion (2015, unknown): “Because people believe their worldview to be objective and unbiased, they project their perceptions, feelings, and judgments onto others (cf., Griffin & Ross, 1991; Krueger, 2003; Krueger & Clement, 1997; Ross & Ward, 1995, 1996).”