Four empirical tests of Unconscious Thought Theory

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 332-340

  Huizenga, Hilde M ^a   Wetzels, Ruud ^a   van Ravenzwaaij, Don ^a   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision aids; Decision making; Heuristics; Lexicographic strategy; Unconscious Thought Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856255484     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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