The influence of hierarchy on probability judgment

Cognition

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-178

  Lagnado, David A ^a   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category induction; Heuristics; Hierarchical structure; Multi stage inference; Probability judgment

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

INFERENCE TREE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0042159895     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00099-4     Document Type: Article

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