Assessing the Empirical Validity of the "Take-The-Best" Heuristic as a Model of Human Probabilistic Inference

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1332-1346

  Bröder, Arndt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0034277438     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.5.1332     Document Type: Article

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