Intuitive decisions on the fringes of consciousness: Are they conscious and does it matter?

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-41

  Price, Mark C ^a   Norman, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making; Feeling; Fringe consciousness; Judgment; Key words intuition; Metacognition; Two systems model

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649094960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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