In this spirit, Kunda and Nisbett asked professional psychologists, attending a convention symposium on statistical aspects of human judgment, to make the very same estimates as the college students whose data are shown in Figure 5.1. Some of these professionals would be describable as personologists, but most were social psychologists and experimentalists. The professional sample provided data that were essentially the same as those in Figure 5.1 – with one exception. The professional psychologists as a group were aware that traits are not very good predictors of behavior. (Or perhaps we
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