The role of decision support in alleviating the familiarity bias

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Marett, Kent ^a   Adams, Garry ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COGNITIVE BIASES; IMPAIR QUALITY; INVESTMENT DECISIONS;

DECISION MAKING; FINANCE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749639847     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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