Testing QuickEst: No evidence for the Quick-Estimation heuristic

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 446-456

  Hausmann, Daniel ^a   Läge, Damian ^a   Pohl, Rüdiger F ^b   Bröder, Arndt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUICK ESTIMATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34247186948     PISSN: 09541446     EISSN: 14640635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09541440600723055     Document Type: Article

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