Subjective validity judgments as an index of sensitivity to sampling bias

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 127-146

  Freytag, Peter ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 36549066684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614576.006     Document Type: Chapter

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