Prisoners use an inflexible strategy in a continuous performance test: A replication

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Dalteg, Arne ^a   Rasmussen, Kirsten ^b   Jensen, Jimmy ^a   Persson, Bengt ^a   Lindgren, May ^a   Lundqvist, Anna ^c   Wirsén Meurling, Ann ^a   Ingvar, David H ^a   Levander, Sten ^a,d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive strategies; Computerized tests; Dyslexia; Prisoners; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031184839     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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