Spurious Consensus and Opinion Revision: Why Might People Be More Confident in Their Less Accurate Judgments?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 558-563

  Yaniv, Ilan ^a   Choshen Hillel, Shoham ^a   Milyavsky, Maxim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

advice taking; combining opinions; consensus; interdependence; judgment and decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONFLICT; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSENSUS; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY INTAKE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; REALITY TESTING; SOCIAL CONFORMITY;

EID: 65349151443     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014589     Document Type: Article

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