How long will it take? Power biases time predictions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 595-604

  Weick, Mario ^a   Guinote, Ana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Forecasting; Planning fallacy; Power; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951617920     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.005     Document Type: Article

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