How smart do you need to be to get it wrong? The role of cognitive capacity in the development of heuristic-based judgment

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-36

  Morsanyi, Kinga ^a   Handley, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biases; Cognitive capacity; Cognitive development; Decision making; Heuristics; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE;

EID: 36048996568     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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