Task complexity and older adults' decision-making competence

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-84

  Finucane, Melissa L ^a   Mertz, C K ^b   Slovic, Paul ^b   Schmidt, Elizabeth Scholze ^b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 15244350131     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.1.71     Document Type: Article

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