Correct acceptance weighs more than correct rejection: A decision bias induced by question framing

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-109

  Kareev, Yaakov ^a   Trope, Yaacov ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Type I and Type II errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951857425     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0019-z     Document Type: Article

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