Methodological pitfalls of the unconscious thought paradigm

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 601-610

  Waroquier, Laurent ^a   Marchiori, David ^a   Klein, Olivier ^a   Cleeremans, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conscious thought; Decision making; Unconscious thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149094494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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