Sequencing actions: An information-search study of tradeoffs of priorities against spatiotemporal constraints

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 282-293

  Gärling, Tommy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Planning; Process tracing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030239254     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00660.x     Document Type: Article

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