The use of category and exemplar knowledge in the solution of anchoring tasks

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1038-1052

  Mussweiler, Thomas ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0034204133     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.78.6.1038     Document Type: Article

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