Exploring the time-saving bias: How drivers misestimate time saved when increasing speed

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 477-488

  Peer, Eyal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Driving behavior; Speed estimation; Time estimation; Time saving bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651499010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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