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Direct linkDougherty, Michael R.; Sprenger, Amber – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
This article introduces 2 new sources of bias in probability judgment, discrimination failure and inhibition failure, which are conceptualized as arising from an interaction between error prone memory processes and a support theory like comparison process. Both sources of bias stem from the influence of irrelevant information on participants'…
Descriptors: Bias, Probability, Error Patterns, Memory
