Decisions beyond boundaries: When more information is processed faster than less

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 532-542

  Glöckner, Andreas ^a   Betsch, Tilmann ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision making; Bounded rationality; Heuristics; Holistic processing; Parallel constraint satisfaction; Response time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857424729     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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