Confidence and accuracy in trait inference: Judgment by similarity

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-57

  Koehler, Derek J ^a,b   Brenner, Lyle A ^a   Liberman, Varda ^c   Tversky, Amos ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nonregressive prediction; Overconfidence; Representativeness; Trait inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030173087     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(95)00005-4     Document Type: Article

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