Conditioned assessment of subjective probabilities: Identifying the benefits of decomposition

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Kleinmuntz, Don N ^a,b   Fennema, M G ^c   Peecher, Mark E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0030123817     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1996.0033     Document Type: Article

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