The Existence Bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 765-775

  Eidelman, Scott ^a   Crandall, Christian S ^b   Pattershall, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

existence; naturalistic fallacy; status quo bias; system justification

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HABIT; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449504906     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017058     Document Type: Article

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