Heuristics as beliefs and as behaviors: The adaptiveness of the "hot hand"

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-331

  Burns, Bruce D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive thinking; Decision making; Hot hand; Sequential information; Streaks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1542378368     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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