Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty: Attributions of Norwegian and American Officials

• Main Authors: Daniel Heradstveit, G. Matthew Bonham
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Norway; Sion; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/23/4/339.abstract

Recent research suggests that when decision-makers are confronted with uncertainty they are more likely to engage in simple-minded thinking, such as the judgmental heuristics that have been studied by attribution theorists. In this article we examine how foreign policy decision-makers in Norway and...