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The utilization of subjective probabilities in production planning

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1982 • 198 citations

Modeling the Societal Impact of Fatal Accidents

1984 • 198 citations

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1967 • 197 citations

The relative influence of probabilities and payoffs upon perceived risk of a gamble

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When do base rates affect predictions?

1981 • 193 citations

The power of consensus: Information derived from one's own and others' behavior.

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Differential forgetting of prototypes and old instances: Simulation by an exemplar-based classification model

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The Conjunction Fallacy

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Abstraction is Uncooperative*

1984 • 188 citations

Strategies of information search in causal analysis

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Cultural Variation In Probabilistic Thinking: Alternative Ways Of Dealing With Uncertainty

1980 • 182 citations

Does having to justify one's judgments change the nature of the judgment process?

1983 • 181 citations

Self-knowledge and social inference: I. The impact of cognitive/affective and behavioral data.

1984 • 181 citations

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1984 • 178 citations

Acceptance of personality interpretations: the "Barnum Effect" and beyond.

1977 • 175 citations

Are People Programmed to Commit Fallacies? Further Thoughts about the Interpretation of Experimental Data on Probability Judgment

1982 • 175 citations

Attitude prototypes as determinants of attitude–behavior consistency.

1984 • 175 citations

Perceptual coding strategies in the formation and verification of descriptions

1974 • 174 citations

Cultural Differences in Probabilistic Thinking

1978 • 173 citations

Reliability, accuracy, and decision-making strategy in clinical predictions of imminent dangerousness.

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Incrimination through innuendo: Can media questions become public answers?

1981 • 173 citations

The Measurement of Belief

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Inductive reasoning: Competence or skill?

1983 • 170 citations

Swine Flu: A Field Study of Self‐Serving Biases

1978 • 168 citations

Biased Questions in Judgment of Covariation Studies

1982 • 167 citations

The belief-bias effect in formal reasoning: The influence of knowledge on logic

1980 • 166 citations

On the sensitivity of regression and regressors.

1978 • 164 citations

Cultural Influences on Response Style: Comparisons of Japanese and American College Students

1967 • 160 citations

Psychopathy, Fear Arousal and Anticipated Pain

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Scenarios, past, present and future

1982 • 158 citations

"Playing hard to get": Understanding an elusive phenomenon.

1973 • 157 citations

Overestimation of subjective probabilities

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What's fair? It depends on how you phrase the question.

1980 • 155 citations

THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM IN CHILDREN WITH MINIMAL CEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION

1968 • 154 citations

Hindsight Distortion and the 1980 Presidential Election

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The accuracy of analysts' forecasts of earnings per share

1975 • 151 citations

The Particle Data Group: Growth and Operations-Eighteen Years of Particle Physics

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The major determinants of the prediction of social events.

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Cultural Differences in Viewing Uncertainty and Assessing Probabilities

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Affect and Memory: the Impact of Affective Reactions in Advertising on the Representation of Product Information in Memory

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Reversed facial images and the mere-exposure hypothesis.

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The general physical constants: As of august 1941 with details on the velocity of light only

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The Effects of Problem Content and Negation on Wason's Selection Task

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The Base Rate Fallacy Controversy

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Stacks not fuzzy sets: An ordinal basis for prototype theory of concepts

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A comparative evaluation of objective and subjective weather forecasts in the united states

1984 • 135 citations

Priming and Frequency Estimation

1984 • 134 citations

Clinical and statistical prediction

1981 • 134 citations

Decisions and memory: Differential retrievability of consistent and contradictory evidence

1984 • 133 citations

Technical Uncertainty in Quantitative Policy Analysis — A Sulfur Air Pollution Example

1984 • 132 citations

Subjective sampling distributions and the additivity of estimates

1974 • 132 citations

Studies in subjective probability III: The unimportance of alternatives

1983 • 131 citations

Some apparent violations of the representativeness heuristic in human judgment.

1976 • 130 citations

From the Descriptive to the Normative in Psychology and Logic

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Status Evaluation in the Hindu Caste System

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Least-Squares Adjusted Values of the Atomic Constants as of December, 1950

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When does a response error become a judgmental bias? Commentary on "Judged frequency of lethal events."

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The availability explanation of excessive plausibility assessments

1981 • 123 citations

A second look at the utility of radiographic skull examination for trauma

1979 • 122 citations

On the Conservation of Liquids

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A Study of Economists' Consensus Forecasts

1983 • 120 citations

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1983 • 118 citations

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1983 • 118 citations

Cognitive Accommodation, Language, and Social Responsibility

1978 • 118 citations

Variants of uncertainty

1982 • 118 citations

An investigation of the relations among probability estimates

1976 • 117 citations

Variability and confirmation

1982 • 115 citations

Focusing techniques: A shortcut to improving probability judgments?

1984 • 115 citations

Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants

1983 • 115 citations

Adherence to Health Care Regimens

1981 • 113 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN NAME STEREOTYPES ON THE MARKING OF CHILDREN'S ESSAYS

1984 • 113 citations

Can irrationality be intelligently discussed?

1983 • 113 citations

The Relationship between Learning Disability, Neurological Impairment, and Delinquency

1981 • 112 citations

Millikan's Published and Unpublished Data on Oil Drops

1981 • 111 citations

Who shall be the arbiter of our intuitions?

1981 • 109 citations

Effects of fear-arousing components of driver education on students' safety attitudes and simulator performance.

1976 • 109 citations

Distribution of probability assessments for almanac and future event questions

1982 • 109 citations

The nature of decisions in gambling

1957 • 108 citations

Impacts of Feedback and Experience on the Quality of Subjective Probability Forecasts. Comparison of Results from the First and Second Years of the Zierikzee Experiment

1984 • 107 citations

Attribution of Arousal as a Mediator of the Effectiveness of Fear‐Arousing Communications¹

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Clinical detection of intellectual deterioration associated with brain damage

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The controversy about irrationality

1983 • 104 citations

The Psychology of Reasoning

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Predicting Length of Hospitalization of Mental Patients

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Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects

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1984 • 100 citations

Setting Standards: A Systematic Approach to Managing Public Health and Safety Risks

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Information Processing and the Perseverance of Discredited Self-Perceptions

1979 • 99 citations

On the Accuracy of Dispositional Versus Situational Attributions

1982 • 97 citations

Heart Rate and Skin Conductance in Anticipation of Shocks With Varying Probability of Occurrence

1974 • 95 citations

“Is” and “ought” in cognitive science

1981 • 94 citations

ACCURACY OF STUDENT PREDICTION OF COLLEGE GRADES

1963 • 94 citations

Imprinting or exposure learning in rats given early auditory stimulation

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Effects of public education about breast cancer and breast self-examination

1984 • 92 citations

Clinical-actuarial detection and description of brain impairment with the W-B form I

1981 • 91 citations

The Fundamental Constants and Quantum Electrodynamics

1971 • 90 citations

“Velocity of Light and of Radio Waves”

1950 • 87 citations

CLINICAL VERSUS ACTUARIAL PREDICTION IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF JAUNDICE

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The Effects of Subjective Affective States on Memory and Judgment

1984 • 84 citations

Multiple attribute scenarios, bounded probabilities, and threats of nuclear theft

1982 • 84 citations

The Speed of Light

1955 • 83 citations

Naive conceptions of free will and the deterministic paradox.

1981 • 82 citations

Forging, cooking, trimming, and riding on the bandwagon

1984 • 82 citations

Improving inductive inference

1982 • 81 citations

Ibsen : letters and speeches

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The Effect of Base Rate on Calibration of Subjective Probability for True-False Questions: Model and Experiment

1983 • 80 citations

FORECASTING PRECIPITATION IN PERCENTAGES OF PROBABILITY.

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Are Bayesian decisions artificially intelligent? The effect of task and personality on conservatism in processing information.

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Fundamental Constants of Physics

1959 • 76 citations

Approximate probability and expectation of gambles

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Flocking of Domestic Chicks

1964 • 76 citations

Heart Rate in Anticipation of Shocks Which Have Different Probabilities of Occurrences

1975 • 75 citations

The bias phenomenon in attitude attribution: Actor and observer perspectives.

1979 • 75 citations

Temporal estimation and heart rate as a function of repression-sensitization score and probability of shock.

1971 • 75 citations

Assessing probabilities of compound events in a judicial context

1978 • 73 citations

Velocity of Light

1934 • 73 citations

Probability Theory for Statistical Methods

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KNOWING AND PRACTICING: TEACHING BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES AT THE ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE

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False Probabilistic Arguments v. Faulty Intuition

1979 • 67 citations

Mental Efficiency Levels Before and After Shock Therapy

1942 • 61 citations

Improvements in human reasoning and an error in L. J. Cohen's

1981 • 55 citations

Risk assessment: Evaluating error in subjective estimates

1981 • 47 citations

Equal Weights, Flat Maxima, and Trivial Decisions.

1980 • 46 citations

'Is' and 'ought'

1964 • 42 citations

Effects of limited recall of variability on intuitive judgments of change.

1981 • 8 citations

Lay arbitration of rules of inference

1981 • 3 citations

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1955 • 0 citations