Belief inhibition during thinking: Not always winning but at least taking part

Cognition

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-61

  De Neys, Wim ^a   Franssens, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision making; Inhibition; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING;

EID: 70349762441     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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