Grouping Information for Judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Shah, Anuj K ^a   Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue weighting; Information aggregation; Judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE;

EID: 79951524223     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021946     Document Type: Article

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