The false consensus effect and overconfidence: Flaws in judgment or flaws in how we study judgment?

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 201-211

  Dawes, Robyn M ^a   Mulford, Matthew ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*

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EID: 0030101656     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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