Take the first: Option-generation and resulting choices

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-229

  Johnson, Joseph G ^a,b   Raab, Markus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Less is more" effect; Decision making; Heuristic; Inconsistency; Memory representation; Option generation; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041703376     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(03)00027-X     Document Type: Article

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