Effects of number of alternatives on choice in humans

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-214

  Suzuki, Shuji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amount of reinforcement; Choice; Concurrent chains; Human; Number of alternatives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031047569     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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