How forgetting aids heuristic inference

Psychological Review

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 610-628

  Schooler, Lael J ^a   Hertwig, Ralph ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluency; Forgetting; Heuristic; Memory; Recognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 23844482446     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.112.3.610     Document Type: Review

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