Misperceptions about perceptual bias

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 189-210

  Gerber, Alan ^a   Green, Donald ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' rule; Bias; Cognition; Learning; Public opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473446     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.189     Document Type: Article

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