Clouds make nerds look good: Field evidence of the impact of incidental factors on decision making

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-152

  Simonsohn, Uri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 500 Huntsman Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapped experts; College admissions; Feature priming; Field data; Incidental emotions; Naturalistic decision making; Priming; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147194142     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.545     Document Type: Article

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