The disutility of the hard-easy effect in choice confidence

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 204-213

  Merkle, Edgar C ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CULTURE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 62649090823     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.1.204     Document Type: Article

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