Decomposing Hindsight Bias

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-269

  Kelman, Mark ^a   Fallas, David E ^b   Folger, Hilary ^b  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindsight bias; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041724477     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007755019837     Document Type: Article

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