June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 28m
English
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
The first studies of hindsight bias reflected the confluence of two desires. One arose from being part of the heady early days of Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman’s heuristics-and-biases research program. As the paradigm evolved, the challenge for the participating graduate students was to find a heuristic to call one’s own or to find a way to elaborate one of the three “classics” (availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment). Maya Bar Hillel and Ruth Beyth-Marom chose the latter route. However, I was still struggling to reconcile the political motives that had brought me to Israel, planning to live in a kibbutz for the rest of my life, with academic ...
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