Claiming a moral minority, saccades help create a biased majority: Tracking eye movements to base rates in social predictions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 970-973

  Balcetis, Emily ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Above average effect; Base rates; Social judgement; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650742312     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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