Adaptive mechanisms for treating missing information: A simulation study

Psychological Record

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 547-568

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   Rieskamp, Jörg ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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EID: 57449101174     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395637     Document Type: Article

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