Field Articulation and Predictive Judgments: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

The relationship of differences in accuracy between men and women in interpersonal predictive judgments to those reported in field articulation research was explored. Field-dependent (ns = 14, 12) and field-independent (ns = 21, 12) men and women (ns = 35, 24) were tested for accuracy of predictive judgments. No statistically significant differences were found between these undergraduate field-dependent and field-independent judges; however, under the field-independent condition, a cell-by-cell examination suggests greater accuracy. There were no significant differences in accuracy of prediction between male and female judges, but statistically significant differences in accuracy scores were found when the person whose behavior was being predicted was female as opposed to male.