Intuition versus analysis: Strategy and experience in complex everyday problem solving

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 554-566

  Pretz, Jean E ^a  

^a ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SKILL; DECISION MAKING; MENTAL FUNCTION; TIME;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45849120988     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.554     Document Type: Article

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