Cognition in the woods: Biases in probability judgments by search and rescue planners

A type of emergency decision-making which has not received research attention is the police search for a lost person in a rural or wilderness area. For many such incidents, decisions concerning where to search for the lost subject are made by a planning team, each member of which assigns probabiliti...

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Main Author: Kenneth A. Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012-07-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/11/111014/jdm111014.pdf