Studies of the dimensionality, correlates, and meaning of measures of the maximizing tendency

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 565-579

  Rim, Hye Bin ^a   Turner, Brandon M ^a   Betz, Nancy E ^a   Nygren, Thomas E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximizing; Psychometric analysis; Satisficing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052656842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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