Resumen de Recherche d'information. Partie I: « Partie I Le paradigme de la confirmation d'hypothèse»
Benoit Dardenne, Jacques Philippe Leyens, Vincent Yzerbyt
In this paper, we present studies on information gathering and hypothesis confirmation in the field of social psychology. We introduce a taxonomy of information gathering strategies in terms of confirmation or disconfirmation, diagnosticity or non diagnosticity. We analyze the consequences of hypothesis confirmation, in terms of falsification, self-fulfilling prophecy, and self-image. We then examine the usual explanations. In a following paper, we suggest that confirmatory strategies should be investigated together with interaction goals.
