Base rates: How to make the intuitive mind appreciate or neglect them

Intuition: In Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 135-148

  Erev, Ido ^a   Shimonowitch, Dvorit ^a   Schurr, Amos ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84920848087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203838099     Document Type: Chapter

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