The Ultimate Sampling Dilemma in Experience-Based Decision Making

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 186-203

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

decision making; information search; natural sampling; sampling; sampling bias

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE;

EID: 38649119498     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.186     Document Type: Article

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