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dilution effect  

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  • 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]

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