Partition priming in judgment under uncertainty

Psychological Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-200

  Fox, Craig R ^a   Rottenstreich, Yuval ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b C74 Harper Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS;

EID: 0042496237     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.02431     Document Type: Article

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