Need for cognition and rationality in decision-making

Studia Psychologica

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-156

  Curşeu, Petru Lucian ^a,b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision heuristics and biases; Decision making; Framing effect; Need for cognition; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745678288     PISSN: 00393320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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