"100% of anything looks good": The appeal of one hundred percent

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 156-162

  Li, Meng ^a   Chapman, Gretchen B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 62649146091     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.1.156     Document Type: Article

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