Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Konstrukte Einstellung und Vertrauen im Kontext eines Lebensmittelzwischenfalls (Dioxin), um diejenigen Einstellungs- und Vertrauenskomponenten zu identifizieren, die die Kaufentscheidung signifikant beeinflussen. Eine erweiterte Version des Modells von...

Health-service users err in posttest probability evaluations. Here we document for the first time that they succeed when they reason about numbers of cases and make distributive evaluations. A sample of women interested in prenatal testing incorrectly evaluated the posttest probability that a...

Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence that overconfident people increase their exposure to risk. In this paper, we test whether...