Biases and fallacies, memories and predictions: Comment on Roy, Christenfeld, and McKenzie (2005)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 757-760

  Griffin, Dale ^a,c   Buehler, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Memory bias; Optimistic bias; Planning fallacy; Prediction

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 26844468014     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.5.757     Document Type: Review

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