What's Next? Judging Sequences of Binary Events

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 262-285

  Oskarsson, An T ^a   Van Boven, Leaf ^a   McClelland, Gary H ^a   Hastie, Reid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

binary sequence; gambler's fallacy; hot hand; Markov process; streaks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CULTURE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 61849097292     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014821     Document Type: Article

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