When One Model Casts Doubt on Another: A Levels-of-Analysis Approach to Causal Discounting

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-210

  Khemlani, Sangeet S ^a   Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Causal discounting; Levels of analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THINKING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING;

EID: 79952421668     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021809     Document Type: Article

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