Adjusting for the correspondence bias: Effects of causal uncertainty, cognitive busyness and causal strength of situational information

A cognitive busyness manipulation is used within the attitude attribution paradigm and it is found that higher causal uncertainty predicted increased correction of dispositional inferences, but only when participants had sufficient attentional resources to devote to the task. The research elucidates new models of judgmental correction process by demonstrating that some people will deliberatively correct judgments even when they are not warned explicitly about possible bias.