Influence of causal knowledge on decision-making processes;Influencia de las creencias causales en los procesos de toma de decisiones

Revista Mexicana de Psicologia

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-111

  García Retamero, Rocío ^a,b   Hoffrage, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal knowledge; Cue selection; Decision maldng; Fast and frugal heuristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350575053     PISSN: 01856073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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