Cognitive load privileges memory-based over data-driven processing, not group-level over person-level processing

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-488

  Skorich, Daniel P ^a   Mavor, Kenneth I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884135966     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: 20448309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2012.02099.x     Document Type: Article

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