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David E. Melnikoff, Nina Strohminger (2024). Bayesianism and wishful thinking are compatible. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(4), 692-701. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

Publication date
23 Feb 2024
Identifier
10.1038/s41562-024-01819-6
Authors
David E. Melnikoff, Nina Strohminger
Source
Nature Human Behaviour
Details
8(4), 692-701
Reference type
article
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Abstract

People often believe what they want to believe rather than what the evidence implies. Here Melnikoff and Strohminger find that this seemingly irrational tendency may emerge from fully rational Bayesia...

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