Correlation Estimates as Perceptual Judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-20

  Meyer, Joachim ^a   Taieb, Meirav ^a   Flascher, Ittai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0040097222     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.3.1.3     Document Type: Article

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