Rational Learning and Information Sampling: On the " Naivety" Assumption in Sampling Explanations of Judgment Biases

Psychological Review

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 379-392

  Le Mens, Gaël ^a,b   Denrell, Jerker ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Judgment biases; Learning; Rational analysis; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79954986859     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023010     Document Type: Article

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