Cognitive biases in blaming the victim

1985/03/01 by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie Janoff‐Bulman, Christine Timko +2 · 2 citations
Decision Sciences · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attribution #Cognition #Cognitive bias #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Developmental psychology #Expectancy theory #Hindsight bias #Outcome (game theory) #Perception #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/0022-1031(85)90013-7

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Citations

• On the psychology of prediction.
• Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty.
• Perseverance of social theories: The role of explanation in the persistence of discredited information.
• Perseverance in self-perception and social perception: Biased attributional processes in the debriefing paradigm.
• Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

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