Group Decision and Deliberation: A Distributed Detection Process

Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 464-483

  Sorkin, Robert D ^a   Luan, Shenghua ^a   Itzkowitz, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Detection model; Hypothesis; Manipulations; Observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889358020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752937.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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