Role of a stimulus filling an action-outcome delay in human judgments of causal effectiveness

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 92-102

  Reed, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032619116     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.25.1.92     Document Type: Article

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