On the use of recognition in inferential decision making: An overview of the debate

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 423-438

  Pohl, Rüdiger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fast and frugal heuristics; Fluency; Inference; Recognition; Recognition heuristic; Take the best; Toolbox

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960999153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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