Mood and the Reliance on the Ease of Retrieval Heuristic

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-32

  Ruder, Markus ^a   Bless, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141865559     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.1.20     Document Type: Article

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