Individual differences in compensatory decision-making style and need for closure as correlates of subjective decision complexity and difficulty

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 699-710

  Shiloh, Shoshana ^a   Koren, Shelly ^a   Zakay, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; individual differences; compensatory style; need for closure; decision difficulties

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285279     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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