Surprises: Low probabilities or high contrasts?

Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 55-71

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a   Keren, Gideon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contrast; Expectations; Subjective probabilities; Surprise

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

SURPRISE RATINGS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0037362508     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00201-9     Document Type: Article

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