Assessing the Belief Bias Effect With ROCs: Reply to Dube, Rotello, and Heit (2010)

Psychological Review

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-173

  Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a   Kellen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belief bias; Multinomial models; Reasoning; Signal detection models

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: 79251516094     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020698     Document Type: Note

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