A calibration explanation of serial position effects in evaluative judgments

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-113

  Unkelbach, Christian ^a   Ostheimer, Vanessa ^a   Fasold, Frowin ^b   Memmert, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Consistency model; Evaluative judgments; Range frequency theory; Serial position effects; Threshold decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864048532     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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