Making Sense of Nonsense: The Visual Salience of Units Determines Sensitivity to Magnitude

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-304

  Shen, Luxi ^a   Urminsky, Oleg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; evaluability; heuristics; judgment; money illusion; number comprehension; visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875036343     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612451470     Document Type: Article

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