Press coverage as a heuristic guide for social decision-making about sexual offenders
We present two studies examining the role of the British press in promoting heuristic-based decision-making about sexual crime. In Study 1, 1014 press articles were used in order to examine the role of the availability heuristic. That is, we used the recent high-profile Jimmy Savile sexual offending...
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Language: | English |
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2017
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Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 118-134 |
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