To thy own self be true: Finding the utility of cognitive information feedback

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 319-341

  Youmans, Robert J ^a,b   Stone, Eric R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive feedback; Dilution effect; Extended mean squared error analysis; General social survey; Judgment; Lens model

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344456412     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.508     Document Type: Article

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