Decision making and the search for fundamental psychological regularities: What can be learned from a process perspective?

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 252-267

  Svenson, Ola ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0030100131     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1996.0026     Document Type: Article

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