Reducing Probabilistic Weather Forecasts to the Worst-Case Scenario: Anchoring Effects

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 342-353

  Joslyn, Susan ^a   Savelli, Sonia ^a   Nadav Greenberg, Limor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring effect; Predictive interval; Uncertainty; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNCERTAINTY; WEATHER;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNCERTAINTY; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855324756     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025901     Document Type: Article

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