Probability judgments in multi-stage problems: Experimental evidence of systematic biases

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 59-68

  Gneezy, Uri ^a  

^a CentER for Economic Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compound probability; Estimation bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042461085     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0001-6918(96)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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