Preference-driven biases in decision makers' information search and evaluation

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 561-576

  Chaxel, Anne Sophie ^a   Edward Russo, J ^b   Kerimi, Neda ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias; Choice; Decision making; Decision strategies; Information search; Predecisional distortion; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884944860     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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