Origins of the sample-size effect in explicit evaluative judgment

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 344-353

  Kaufmann, Martina ^a   Betsch, Tilmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude formation; Averaging; Fast and frugal heuristics; Information integration; Perceived reliability; Summation; Value account model; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649516285     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.5.344     Document Type: Article

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