Children's adaptive pre-decisional search behavior: Effects of memory and number of alternatives

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-24

  Katz, Idit ^a   Bereby Meyer, Yoella ^a   Assor, Avi ^a   Danziger, Shai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive behavior; Children; Cognitive cost; Information search; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149083004     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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