social cognition
type: Concept
narrower: dilution effect

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: dilution effect

dilution effect
type: Concept
definition: Definition The dilution effect is a judgment bias in which people underutilize diagnostic information when nondiagnostic information is also present. Diagnostic information is knowledge that is useful in making a particular judgment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Dilution Effect]
broader: social cognition