'Attentional Bias' in correlation judgments? Smedslund (1963) revisited

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 221-233

  Vallée Tourangeau, Frédéric ^a   Hollingsworth, Louise ^a   Murphy, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative models; Correlation judments; Induction; Outcome density bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013269263     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00082     Document Type: Article

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