"Everyone else is doing it": Relations between bias in base-rate estimates and involvement in deviant behaviors

The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 157-179

  Jacobs, Janis E ^a   Johnston, Kristen E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 68249084870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410613660     Document Type: Chapter

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