Multiple-Reason Decision Making Based on Automatic Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1055-1075

  Glöckner, Andreas ^a   Betsch, Tilmann ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

automatic information integration; intuition; one reason decision making; probabilistic inferences; process tracing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 55049111609     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.5.1055     Document Type: Article

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