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Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading
2000
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
A new theory of cognitive biases, called error management theory (EMT), proposes that psychological mechanisms are designed to be predictably biased when the costs of false-positive and false-negative errors were asymmetrical over evolutionary history. This theory explains known phenomena such as men's overperception of women's sexual intent, and it predicts new biases in social inference such as women's underestimation of men's commitment. In Study 1 (N = 217), the authors documented the
doi:10.1037/0022-3514.78.1.81
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