'Heads or tails?'-a reachability bias in binary choice

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1656-1663

  Bar Hillel, Maya ^a   Peer, Eyal ^b   Acquisti, Alessandro ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquiescence bias; Order effects; Randomness cognition; Reachability; Response bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUMISMATICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84925730513     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000005     Document Type: Article

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