How laypeople and experts misperceive the effect of economic growth

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-392

  Christandl, Fabian ^a   Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; Expectations; Forecasting; Incentives; Need for cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349108648     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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