Outcome Value and Early Warning Indications as Determinants of Willingness to Learn from Experience

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 150-157

  Zakay, Dan ^a   Ellis, Shmuel ^a   Shevalsky, Morit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Early warning; Learning from experience; Managerial decision making; Organizational learning; Outcomes' value

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFFECT; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 1842760516     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.51.2.150     Document Type: Article

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