FEEDBACK AND EXPERIENCE EFFECTS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS AND PREDICTIONS OF BEHAVIOR.

The article examines the feedback and experience effects on psychological reports and predictions of behavior. The article further presents a study which is concerned with the performances of groups that differ in training and conditions of feedback. Comparisons are made for accuracy and idiosyncracy of data usage and for accuracy of predicting subsequent life events. The experienced subjects displayed less consensus on data usage and employed more idiosynciatic adjectives in their inferences and more idiosyncratic concepts in their reports. Some improvement in predictions of behavior by females occurred as a result of feedback.