Passion, Preference, and Predictability in Judgmental Forecasting
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 70 (3_suppl) , 1022
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1992.70.3c.1022
Abstract
A study of 81 football fans showed that the strength of the wishful thinking bias was related to the desirability of outcome, an effect moderated by environmental uncertainty.Keywords
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