As our final illustration, let us again refer to an ex­ ample involving constructive cognition. In theorizing on the so-called confirmation bias (Snyder, 1984; Zuckerman, Knee, Hodgins, & Myake, 1995), almost everyone (students like Journal o f Personality and So­ cial Psychology reviewers) agrees that two assump­ tions are logically sufficient to explain the tendency to subjectively verify a hypothesis in the absence of sound empirical evidence. First, when experimental participants are asked to test the hypothesis that their interview partner is extraverted, rather than intro­ verted, they typically engage in positive testing; that is, they ask more questions referring to extraverted behav­ iors (going to parties, telling jokes) than introverted be­ haviors (reading a book, being alone at home). Second, interviewees tend to provide more yes than no re­ sponses, a tendency called acquiescence. Positive test­ ing and acquiescence together (that is, the tendency to ask many extraverted questions and the tendency to provide many yes responses) seem to explain (or ratio­ nalize) the belief that the interview partner is actually an extravert.