Calibration, additivity, and source independence of probability judgments in general knowledge and sensory discrimination tasks

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 34-51

  Juslin, Peter ^a   Winman, Anders ^b   Olsson, Henrik ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0347604421     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(03)00063-3     Document Type: Article

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