Self-selection bias in hypothesis comparison

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-225

  Whitman, Jennifer C ^a   Woodward, Todd S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Hypothesis generation; Judgment; Option fixation; Overconfidence; Probabilistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860996745     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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