Explaining and Simulating Judgment Biases as an Aggregation Phenomenon in Probabilistic, Multiple-Cue Environments

Psychological Review

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 193-214

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 1542682082     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.103.1.193     Document Type: Article

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