Cognitive Mapping of Causal Reasoning in Strategic Decision Making

Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 251-272

  Maule, A John ^a   Hodgkinson, Gerard P ^a   Bown, Nicola J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coding the cognitive maps; Mapping of reasoning; Strategic decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889477205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047001332X.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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