The formation of suspicion: A vignette study

Being suspicious is part of police training, and is emphasized in police culture. Tversky and Kahneman argued that people make decisions based on a limited number of heuristic factors to reduce a complex task to likely probabilities (Tversky A and Kahneman D [1974] Judgment under uncertainty: heuris...

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Main Author: Phillips, Scott W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: International journal of police science & management
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 274-284
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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