Order from chaos? 1/f noise predicts performance on reaction time measures

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 830-835

  Correll, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; Effort; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955156156     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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