Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree

American Psychologist

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 515-526

  Kahneman, Daniel ^a   Klein, Gary ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

expertise; heuristics; intuition; judgment; overconfidence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTUITION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; PREJUDICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 70349294339     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016755     Document Type: Article

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