System Operator Response to Warnings of Danger: A Laboratory Investigation of the Effects of the Predictive Value of a Warning on Human Response Time

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 19-33

  Getty, David J ^a   Swets, John A ^a   Pickett, Ronald M ^b   Gonthier, David ^b  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

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EID: 0002433401     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.1.1.19     Document Type: Article

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