How different types of participant payments alter task performance

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 419-428

  Brase, Gary L ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgments under uncertainty; Monetary incentives; Participant methodology; Performance; Statistical probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350191691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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