Behavioral information search by indecisives

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1113-1123

  Ferrari, Joseph R ^a   Dovidio, John F ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Decision making strategies; Decisional procrastination; Indecision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007217393     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00094-5     Document Type: Article

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