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Some participants were induced into a "configural" mindset, meaning that they were told to focus on their overall impression of the items.

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Specifically, man has proven to be a so-so configural or interactive processor of information.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

We have already seen how far fewer inputs overtax the configural or interactive judgment of experts.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Curious what he would find in the stock market, Paul Slovic, an internationally respected cognitive psychologist, tested the importance of configural or interactive reasoning in the decisions of market professionals.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Thus, a successful analyst must be adept at configural processing; he must integrate many diverse factors, and if one changes, he must reweigh the whole assessment.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

I hope it is becoming apparent that these configural relationships are extremely complex.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Although the diagnosis requires a high level of configural processing, the researchers found that in actual practice, it accounted for a small part of all decisions—some 3%.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Indicators 1, 2, 4, and 5 are reasonably straightforward calculations, avoiding the major portion of the configural and information-processing problems previously discussed.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

All in all, the evidence indicates that most people are weak configural processors, in or out of the marketplace.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Nurses, social workers, and psychologists showed little evidence of configural thinking, although it was essential for the optimum solution.37 In another test, 13 clinical psychologists and 16 advanced graduate students attempted to determine whether the symptoms of 861 patients were neurotic or psychotic, a highly configural task.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998