Impetus beliefs as default heuristics: Dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge about motion

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 439-453

  Kozhevnikov, Maria ^a,b   Hegarty, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; CULTURE; FEMALE; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0035460628     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196179     Document Type: Article

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