What I want is what I get : an investigation of the desirability bias.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Kuah, Aik Sze., Ng, We Lin.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Tan, Hun Tong
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• منشور في: 2008
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10924
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This study investigates the desirability bias, which occurs when people over-estimate the likelihood of desirable outcomes and under-estimate the likelihood of undesirable outcomes, even though the objective probabilities are known (Budescu and Bruderman, 1995). This study attempts to examine the pr...