Motivated perception of probabilistic information

Cognition

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 429-442

  Lench, Heather C ^a   Smallman, Rachel ^a   Darbor, Kathleen E ^a   Bench, Shane W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic optimism; Desirability bias; Risk judgments; Social judgments; Unrealistic optimism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; ADOLESCENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906349820     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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