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Brown, Eric R.	1
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Hindsight (Not Equal To) Foresight: The Effect of Outcome Knowledge on Judgment Under Uncertainty

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Fischoff, Baruch – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1975

The studies reported here asked: (a) How does receipt of outcome knowledge affect judgment? (b) How aware are people of the effects that outcome knowledge has on their perceptions? Answers to these questions will shed light on how people do learn and might better learn from history. (Author/RK)

Descriptors: Decision Making, Experimental Psychology, Perception, Probability

Probability Estimation in a Chance Task with Changing Probabilities

Peer reviewed

Brown, Eric R.; Bane, Alice L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1975

In two experiments the probabilistic properties of an internal (skill) task were simulated in an external (chance) task. (Editor)

Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Probability, Psychological Studies