The relative success of recognition-based interference in multichoice decisions

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1037-1048

  McCloy, Rachel ^a   Beaman, C Philip ^a   Smith, Philip T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Heuristic; Mathematical modeling; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949083358     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802152319     Document Type: Article

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