The conceptual centrality of causal cycles

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 744-758

  Kim, Nancy S ^a   Luhmann, Christian C ^b   Pierce, Margaret L ^a   Ryan, Megan M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL STUDENT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 70349225780     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.744     Document Type: Article

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