Effects of test cost and cognitive demand on hypothesis-testing behaviors: Three experiments

Current Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 300-318

  Mcdonald, John ^a   Brodsky, Boris ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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