20 positive lag scorers and 20 negative lag scorers were administered an adjective-rating task to test the hypothesis that these two groups differ on non-sequential judgment tasks as well as on the sequential criterion task. Results confirmed that the two groups differed in the dispersion of their ratings of the non-sequential stimuli. Discussion suggested that the lag score is saturated with an individual difference variable which is common to both sequential and non-sequential judgment tasks and is thus a confounded measure of leveling-sharpening.
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