Automatic activation of attribute knowledge in heuristic inference from memory

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 372-377

  Khader, Patrick H ^a   Pachur, Thorsten ^b   Jost, Kerstin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fan effect; Heuristics; Long term memory; Spreading activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874754360     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0334-7     Document Type: Article

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