The gambler’s fallacy in retrospect: A supplementary comment on Oppenheimer and Monin (2009)

Oppenheimer and Monin (2009) recently found that subjectively rare events are taken to indicate a longer preceding sequence of unobserved trials than subjectively common events, an effect which they refer to as the retrospective gambler’s fallacy. The current paper extends this idea to the situation...

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Main Author: William J. Matthews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010-04-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500000991/type/journal_article