Coherence and the Conjunction Fallacy.
The conjunction fallacy occurs when, after reading about an introductory event a, participants rate a combination of two events (b c) as more likely than a single event b. It has been proposed that the fallacy is more likely to occur when the coherence of a, b, c —the extent to which the three even...
| Publicado en: | Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 2219 - 2230 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2026
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