Accountability Research

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Tetlock, P.E. (final revision process/2000). Cognitive biases and organizational correctives: Do both disease and cure depend on the ideological beholder? Administrative Science Quarterly.

Tetlock, P.E. (in press/2000). Exploring empirical implications of deviant functionalist metaphors: People as intuitive politicians, prosecutors, and theologians. In Gilovich, T. Griffin, D.W., & Kahneman, D. (1999). Inferences, heuristics and biases: New directions in judgment under uncertainty. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Markman, K. D., & Tetlock, P. E. (in press/2000). "I could not have known": Accountability, foreseeability, and counterfactual denials of responsibility. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Green, M., Visser, P., & Tetlock, P.E. (in press/2000). Coping with accountability cross-pressures: Attitude shifting, self-criticism, and decision evasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Lerner, J. & Tetlock, P.E. (in press/2000). Bridging individual, interpersonal, and institutional approaches to judgment and choice: Insights from research on accountability. In S. Schneider and J. Shanteau (eds), Emerging perspectives in judgment and decision-making. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lerner, J. & Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Accounting for the effects of accountability. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 255-275.

Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Accountability theory: Mixing properties of human agents with properties of social systems. In J. Levine, L. Thompson, & D. Messick (eds.), Shared cognition in organizations: The management of knowledge. Erlbaum: Hillsdale, N.J.

Tetlock, P. E. & Lerner, J. (1999). The social contingency model: Identifying empirical and normative boundary conditions on the error-and-bias portrait of human nature. In s. Chaiken & Y. Trope (eds.), Dual process models in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

Lerner, J., Goldberg, J. & Tetlock, P.E. (1998). Sober second thought: The effects of accountability, anger, and authoritarianism on attributions of responsibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 563-574.

Tetlock, P.E. (1998). Losing our religion: On the precariousness of precise normative standards in complex accountability systems. In R. Kramer & M. Neale (eds.), Influence processes in organizations: Emerging themes in theory and research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Tetlock, P.E., Lerner, J., & Boettger, R. (1996). The dilution effect: Judgmental bias, conversational convention, or a bit of both? European Journal of Social Psychology,26, 915-935.

Buchman, T., Tetlock, P. E., & Reed, R. O. (1996). Accountability and auditors' judgments about contingent events. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 23, 379-398.

Tetlock, P. E. (1996). Accountability and social systems: A psychological perspective. In P. Stenning (Ed.), Accountability for criminal justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Tetlock, P. E. & Boettger, R. (1994). Accountability amplifies the status quo effect when change creates victims. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 7, 1-23.

Tetlock, P.E. (1994). Accountability. In M. Hewstone & A.S.R. Manstead (eds.), Dictionary of social psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Lerner, J. & Tetlock, P. E. (1994). Accountability and social cognition. Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. New York: Academic Press.

Tetlock, P. E. (1992). The impact of accountability on judgment and choice: Toward a social contingency model. In M. Zanna (ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (vol. 25) (pp. 331-376). New York: Academic Press.

Tetlock, P. E. (1991). An alternative metaphor in the study of judgement and choice: People as politicians. Theory and Psychology, 1, 451-477. Reprinted in R. Hogarth & W. Goldstein (eds.), Judgment and decision-making: An interdisciplinary reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Tetlock, P. E. (1991). Some thoughts on fourth generational models of social cognition. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 212-215.

Tetlock, P. E., & Boetteger, R. (1989). Accountability: A social magnifier of the dilution effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, 57, 388-398.

Tetlock, P. E., Skitka, L., & Boettger, R. (1989). Social and cognitive strategies of coping with accountability: Conformity, complexity, and bolstering. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Dynamics, 57, 632-641.

Tetlock, P. E., & Kim, J. (1987). Accountability and judgment in a personality prediction task. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, 52, 700-709.

Tetlock, P. E., & McGuire, C. B. (1985). Integrative complexity of Soviet rhetoric as a predictor of Soviet foreign policy behavior. International Journal of Group Tensions, 14, 113-128.

Tetlock, P. E. & Manstead, A. S. R. (1985). Impression management versus intrapsychic explanations in social psychology: A useful dichotomy? Psychological Review, 92, 59-77.

Tetlock, P. E. (1985). Accountability: The neglected social context of judgment and choice. In B. Staw & L. Cummings (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 7, pp. 297-332). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Reprinted in L. Cummings & B. Staw (eds.), Research in organizational behavior: Judgment processes. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Tetlock, P. E. (1983). Accountability and perseverance of first impressions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 46, 285-292.

Tetlock, P. E. (1983). Accountability and complexity of thought. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, 45, 74-83.

Tetlock, P. E. & Levi, A. (1982). Attribution bias: On the inconclusiveness of the cognition-motivation debate. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 18, 68-88. Reprinted in E. Aronson & A. Pratkanis (eds., 1991), International Library of Critical Readings in Psychology. London: Elgar Publishing Co.

Tetlock P. E. (1982). Accounting for failure: A social psychological perspective. In R. Room & G. Collins (Eds.), Alcohol and disinhibition. National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Research Monograph Series. Washington, DC: USGPO.

Tetlock, P. E. (1981). The influence of self-presentation goals on attributional reports. Social Psychology Quarterly, 44, 300-311.

Tetlock, P. E. (1980). Explaining teacher explanations of pupil performance: A self-presentation interpretation. Social Psychology Quarterly, 43, 283-290.


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