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Direct linkBar-Hillel, Maya; Peer, Eyal; Acquisti, Alessandro – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
When asked to mentally simulate coin tosses, people generate sequences that differ systematically from those generated by fair coins. It has been rarely noted that this divergence is apparent already in the very 1st mental toss. Analysis of several existing data sets reveals that about 80% of respondents start their sequence with Heads. We…
Descriptors: Bias, Selection, Cognitive Processes, Simulation
