Herbert Simon's Decision-Making Approach: Investigation of Cognitive Processes in Experts

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 354-364

  Campitelli, Guillermo ^a   Gobet, Fernand ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA INTERAMERICANA   (Argentina)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Decision making; Expertise; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650299701     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021256     Document Type: Article

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