Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases: How noisy information processing can bias human decision making

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-237

  Hilbert, Martin ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias and heuristic; Information theory; Judgment and decision making; Subjective probabilities; Theoretical framework

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84860595011     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025940     Document Type: Article

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