Distorting the probability of treatment success to justify treatment decisions

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-58

  Gurmankin Levy, Andrea ^a,b   Hershey, John C ^c,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance; Risk perception; Subjective probability; Value induced bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748913926     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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