Decision-making heuristics and biases across the life span

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1235, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-74

  Strough, Jonell ^a   Karns, Tara E ^a   Schlosnagle, Leo ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biases; Dual processes; Framing effect; Heuristics; Sunk costs

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFESPAN; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY; SKILL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 80054945045     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06208.x     Document Type: Article

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