One-Reason Decision Making Unveiled: A Measurement Model of the Recognition Heuristic

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-134

  Hilbig, Benjamin E ^a,b   Erdfelder, Edgar ^a   Pohl, Rüdiger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

Author keywords

comparative judgments; fast and frugal heuristics; less is more effect; multinomial processing tree model; recognition heuristic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 74049087903     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017518     Document Type: Article

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