Swirsky, Chloe L.; Fernbach, Philip M.; Sloman, Steven A. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 6 (2011) 7, pp. 688-696
The tempting fate effect is that the probability of a fateful outcome is deemed higher following an action that ``tempts'' the outcome than in the absence of such an action. In this paper we evaluate the hypothesis that the effect is due to an illusion of control induced by a causal framing of...
