Strategy variability: How too much of a good thing can hurt performance

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1652-1666

  Hansberger, Jeffrey T ^a,c   Schunn, Christian D ^b   Holt, Robert W ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SKILL; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAMWORK;

EID: 34247194571     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195928     Document Type: Article

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