The retrospective gambler's fallacy: Unlikely events, constructing the past, and multiple universes

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 326-334

  Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a   Monin, Benoît ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gambler's fallacy; Probability judgment; Surprisingness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350173191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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