Brunswikian and thurstonian origins of bias in probability assessment: On the interpretation of stochastic components of judgment

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-209

  Juslin, Peter ^a   Olsson, Henrik ^a   Björkman, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calibration; Error models; Format dependence; Over underconfidence; PMM theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744433135     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(199709)10:3<189::AID-BDM258>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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