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Peer reviewedPelham, Brett W.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Five experiments involving a total of 268 college students indicate that people are especially likely to overinfer quantity or probability from numerosity when they are asked to make inherently difficult judgments, when they are asked to render judgments while performing a concurrent task, and when they are forced to make rapid judgments. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Decision Making
