The influence of causal information on judgments of treatment efficacy

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-41

  Yopchick, Jennelle E ^a   Kim, Nancy S ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; NORMAL HUMAN; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEARNING; MENTAL DISEASE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62649099830     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.1.29     Document Type: Article

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