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Effects of uncertainty on use of the availability of heuristic for self-efficacy judgments

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 85 KB
Volume: 29
Category: Article
ISSN: 0046-2772
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199903/05)29:2/3<407::aid-ejsp943>3.0.co;2-3

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✦ Synopsis

Under conditions of higher or lower uncertainty, college students recalled three or eight ways to improve exam performance and then estimated their likelihood of getting As on their easiest and hardest ®nals. Results supported the hypothesis that the availability heuristic is used only under conditions of uncertainty.

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