Coherence and correspondence in the psychological analysis of numerical predictions: How error-prone heuristics are replaced by ecologically valid heuristics

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-185

  Ganzach, Yoav ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cue probability learning; Heuristics and biases; Numerical prediction; Social judgment theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350139751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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