Evidence for the Coincidence Effect in Environmental Judgments: Why Isn't It Easy to Correctly Identify Environmentally Friendly Food Products?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-11

  Tanner, Carmen ^a   Jungbluth, Niels ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ESU services   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0037984121     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.9.1.3     Document Type: Article

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