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Description

The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics,... read more

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First Sentence

"Suppose you have run an experiment on 20 subjects, and have obtained a significant result which confirms your theory (z = 2.23, p < .05, two-tailed).

Authors & Contributors

  1. Amos Tversky (Author)
  2. Daniel Kahneman

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  1. decision theory
  2. economics
  3. psychology 
 

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