The interplay of experience-based affective and probabilistic cues in decision making: Arousal increases when experience and additional cues conflict

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-141

  Glöckner, Andreas ^a   Hochman, Guy ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affect heuristic; Experience based decision making; Intuition; Parallel constraint satisfaction; Physiological arousal; Probabilistic inferences; Somatic marker hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PROBABILITY LEARNING;

EID: 79952139391     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000078     Document Type: Article

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