The Role of Causality in Judgment Under Uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 430-450

  Krynski, Tevye R ^a   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

base rate fallacy; base rate neglect; Bayes net; Bayesian network; causal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 34548836013     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.430     Document Type: Article

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