Empirical tests of a fast-and-frugal heuristic: Not everyone "takes-the-best"

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 82-96

  Newell, Ben R ^a   Weston, Nicola J ^a   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral strategies; Bounded rationality; Fast and frugal heuristics; Take the best

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038636315     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00525-3     Document Type: Review

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