How to study cognitive decision algorithms: The case of the priority heuristic

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-32

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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