Regressive Judgment: Implications of a Universal Property of the Empirical World

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 361-367

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

category split effect; extremity; illusory correlation; subadditivity; theoretical construct; unreliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908610583     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721414546330     Document Type: Article

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