ONLINE VERSUS MEMORY-BASED ORIENTATIONS AND SELF-REPORT VALIDITY

A partial replication of a study by Nisbett and Bellows (1977) to whic h a memorization condition was added showed that subjects did not have introspective access to the determinants of their judgments, but did so only in the impression-formation condition. In the memorization con dition, the subjects' self-reports matched the observed experimental e ffects. An analysis of the results showed that this was probably becau se the subjects' judgments in the latter condition were based on causa l theories. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.