Decision-making: Context matters

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-171

  Fantino, Edmund ^a   Stolarz Fantino, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Decision making; Fallacies; Logical decisions; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; NEGLECT; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 17444382743     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.02.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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