The least likely act: Overweighting atypical past behavior in behavioral predictions

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 760-766

  Morewedge, Carey K ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

judgment and decision making; memory; perspective taking; social cognition; social judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867735152     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611434784     Document Type: Article

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