Evaluating the coherence of take-the-best in structured environments

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 360-372

  Lee, Michael D ^a   Zhang, Shunan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diminishing returns; Environment structure; Fast and frugal heuristics; Process coherence; Take the best

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864575292     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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