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“They don’t Know Better than I do”: People Prefer Seeing for Themselves Over Using the Wisdom of Crowds in Perceptual Decision Making Cover

“They don’t Know Better than I do”: People Prefer Seeing for Themselves Over Using the Wisdom of Crowds in Perceptual Decision Making

By: Merav Yonah and  Yoav Kessler  
Open Access
|Jun 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.173 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 24, 2020
Accepted on: May 31, 2021
Published on: Jun 21, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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