The role of actively open-minded thinking in information acquisition, accuracy, and calibration

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 188-201

  Haran, Uriel ^a   Ritov, Ilana ^b   Mellers, Barbara A ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actively open minded thinking; Calibration; Forecasting; Individual differences; Overconfidence; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878455813     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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