Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1975, Pages 288-299

  Fischhoff, Baruch ^a  

^a Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

historical outcome knowledge, awareness of effect on perceptions perceived probability of occurrence of events, college students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747927436     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.1.3.288     Document Type: Article

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