How choice ecology influences search in decisions from experience

Cognition

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-342

  Lejarraga, Tomás ^a,d   Hertwig, Ralph ^b,c   Gonzalez, Cleotilde ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decisions from experience; Loss; Risk; Sampling; Search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SAMPLING;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK-TAKING; SAMPLE SIZE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864056218     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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