The Belief Bias Effect Is Aptly Named: A Reply to Klauer and Kellen (2011)

Psychological Review

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-163

  Dube, Chad ^a   Rotello, Caren M ^b   Heit, Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief bias; Deductive reasoning; Inductive reasoning; Response bias; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LOGIC; NOTE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREJUDICE; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79251487832     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021774     Document Type: Note

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