Effects of amount of information on judgment accuracy and confidence

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-105

  Tsai, Claire I ^a   Klayman, Joshua ^b   Hastie, Reid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Calibration; Confidence; Football; Judgment; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849086806     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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