Blindness to alternative scenarios in evidence evaluation

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-163

  Rassin, Eric ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative scenarios; Confirmation bias; Evidence; Tunnel vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956447063     PISSN: 15444759     EISSN: 15444767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jip.116     Document Type: Article

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