From group diffusion to ratio bias: Effects of denominator and numerator salience on intuitive risk and likelihood judgments
The group-diffusion effect is the tendency for people to judge themselves to be less likely to experience a negative outcome as the total number of people exposed to the threat increases — even when the probability of the outcome is explicitly presented (Yamaguchi, 1998). In Experiment 1 we replicat...
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Cambridge University Press
2009-10-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500003971/type/journal_article |