Four challenges for cognitive research on the recognition heuristic and a call for a research strategy shift

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-99

  Tomlinson, Tracy ^a   Marewski, Julian N ^b,c   Dougherty, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive architectures; Formal modeling; Recognition heuristic; Recognition memory; Strategy selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951665890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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