The wisdom of many in one mind: Improving individual judgments with dialectical bootstrapping

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-237

  Herzog, Stefan M ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE;

EID: 59349113778     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02271.x     Document Type: Article

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