On the provenance of judgments of conditional probability

Cognition

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-36

  Zhao, Jiaying ^a   Shah, Anuj ^a   Osherson, Daniel ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Judgment; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STIMULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70349974973     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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