Investigations in spontaneous discounting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 608-614

  Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a   Monin, Benoît ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; NAMES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650378967     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.5.608     Document Type: Article

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