Irrational decisions: Attending to numbers rather than ratios

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1537-1547

  Alonso, Diego ^a   Fernández Berrocal, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive experiential self theory; Experiential system; Irrational decisions; Need for cognition; Probabilistic judgement; Ratio bias phenomenom; Rational system; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141799761     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00368-9     Document Type: Article

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