Effects of task difficulty on use of advice

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-35

  Gino, Francesca ^a   Moore, Don A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advice; Comparative judgment; Difficulty; Egocentrism; Judgmental weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846474350     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.539     Document Type: Article

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