Tversky and Kahneman’s Cognitive Illusions: Who Can Solve Them, and Why?

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-512773
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.51277

Bruckmaier, Georg ; Krauss, Stefan

; Binder, Karin

; Hilbert, Sven

; Brunner, Martin

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Abstract

In the present paper we empirically investigate the psychometric properties of some of the most famous statistical and logical cognitive illusions from the "heuristics and biases" research program by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who nearly 50 years ago introduced fascinating brain teasers such as the famous Linda problem, the Wason card selection task, and so-called Bayesian reasoning ...