Semantic coherence and fallacies in estimating joint probabilities

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-223

  Wolfe, Christopher R ^a   Reyna, Valerie F ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogies; Conjunctive and disjunctive probabilities; Fallacies; Fuzzy trace theory; Joint probability judgments; Semantic coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950156143     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.650     Document Type: Article

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