Errors in probabilistic reasoning and judgment biases

DJ Benjamin - Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Errors in probabilistic reasoning have been the focus of much psychology research and are
among the original topics of modern behavioral economics. This chapter reviews theory and …

Not so above average after all: When people believe they are worse than average and its implications for theories of bias in social comparison

DA Moore - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision …, 2007 - Elsevier
Recent research calls into question the generally accepted conclusion that people believe
themselves to be better than average. This paper reviews the new theories that have been …

Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

EJ Johnson, SB Shu, BGC Dellaert, C Fox… - Marketing letters, 2012 - Springer
The way a choice is presented influences what a decision-maker chooses. This paper
outlines the tools available to choice architects, that is anyone who present people with …

Assessing consumers' satisfaction and expectations through online opinions: Expectation and disconfirmation approach

A Qazi, A Tamjidyamcholo, RG Raj, G Hardaker… - Computers in Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
The opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about multiple topics such as
social events, marketing campaigns, and product preferences has raised more and more …

Overconfidence and underconfidence: When and why people underestimate (and overestimate) the competition

DA Moore, DM Cain - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision …, 2007 - Elsevier
It is commonly held that people believe themselves to be better than others, especially for
outcomes under their control. However, such overconfidence is not universal. This paper …

Error and bias in comparative judgment: on being both better and worse than we think we are.

DA Moore, DA Small - Journal of personality and social …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
People believe that they are better than others on easy tasks and worse than others on
difficult tasks. In previous attempts to explain these better-than-average and worse-than …

Finding useful questions: on Bayesian diagnosticity, probability, impact, and information gain.

JD Nelson - Psychological review, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114 (3) of
Psychological Review (see record 2007-10421-013). In Table 13, the data should indicate …

Ubiquitous log odds: a common representation of probability and frequency distortion in perception, action, and cognition

H Zhang, LT Maloney - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2012 - frontiersin.org
In decision from experience, the source of probability information affects how probability is
distorted in the decision task. Understanding how and why probability is distorted is a key …

Memories of yesterday's emotions: Does the valence of experience affect the memory-experience gap?

T Miron-Shatz, A Stone, D Kahneman - Emotion, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Intense pain is often exaggerated in retrospective evaluations, indicating a possible
divergence between experience and memory. However, little is known regarding how …

Can journalistic “false balance” distort public perception of consensus in expert opinion?

DJ Koehler - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Media critics have expressed concern that journalistic “false balance” can distort the public's
perceptions of what ought to be noncontroversial subjects (eg, climate change). I report …