Think or blink-is the recognition heuristic an "intuitive" strategy?

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 300-309

  Hilbig, Benjamin E ^a   Scholl, Sabine G ^a   Pohl, Rüdiger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative judgments; Deliberation; Effort reduction; Heuristics; Intuition; Multinomial processing tree model; Recognition heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955479930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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