Searching for Certainty in an Uncertain World: The Difficulty of Giving Up the Experiential for the Rational Mode of Thinking

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-106

  Schul, Yaacov ^a   Mayo, Ruth ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Maximization; Prediction; Rational and experiential modes of processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037269679     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.434     Document Type: Article

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