The Recognition heuristic in memory-based inference: Is recognition a non-compensatory cue?

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-210

  Pachur, Thorsten ^a   Bröder, Arndt ^b   Marewski, Julian N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Memory; Noncompensatory strategies; Recognition heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649097351     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.581     Document Type: Article

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