In praise of vagueness: Malleability of vague information as a performance booster

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 733-738

  Mishra, Himanshu ^a   Mishra, Arul ^a   Shiv, Baba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

expectancy generation; mental acuity; motivated reasoning; performance; vague information; weight loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GAME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

COMMUNICATION; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MOTIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 79958125302     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611407208     Document Type: Article

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