Cognitive Biases and Organizational Correctives: Do Both Disease and Cure Depend on the Politics of the Beholder?
@article{Tetlock2000CognitiveBA, title={Cognitive Biases and Organizational Correctives: Do Both Disease and Cure Depend on the Politics of the Beholder?}, author={Philip E. Tetlock}, journal={Administrative Science Quarterly}, year={2000}, volume={45}, pages={293 - 326} }
The study reported here assessed the impact of managers' philosophies of human nature on their reactions to influential academic claims and counter-claims of when human judgment is likely to stray from rational-actor standards and of how organizations can correct these biases. Managers evaluated scenarios that depicted decision-making processes at micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis: alleged cognitive biases of individuals, strategies of structuring and coping with accountability…
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