Confidence judgments by actors and observers

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-242

  Koehler, Derek J ^a,b   Harvey, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration; Confidence; Hypothesis generation; Subjective probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744462231     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0771(199709)10:3<221::aid-bdm252>3.0.co;2-c     Document Type: Article

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