Do people treat missing information adaptively when making inferences?

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1991-2013

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   Rieskamp, Jorg ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision making; Incomplete information; Missing information; Probabilistic inferences; Strategy selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449580719     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802602615     Document Type: Article

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