How temporal assumptions influence causal judgments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1128-1137

  Hagmayer, York ^a   Waldmann, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036817360     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194330     Document Type: Article

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