Speed/accuracy decisions in task performance: Built-in trade-off or separate strategic concerns?

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 148-164

  Förster, Jens ^a   Higgins, E Tory ^b   Bianco, Amy Taylor ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 0038057621     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00509-5     Document Type: Review

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