When Negative Evidence Increases Confidence: Change in Belief after Hearing Two Sides of a Dispute

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-18

  McKenzie, Craig R M ^a   Lee, Susanna M ^a   Chen, Karen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief updating; Dispute resolution; Opinion revision confidence; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036103467     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.400     Document Type: Article

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