Magnitude comparison extended: How lack of knowledge informs comparative judgments under uncertainty

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 273-294

  Schweickart, Oliver ^a   Brown, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative judgment; Fast and frugal heuristics; Magnitude comparison; Recognition heuristic; Symbolic distance effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84893381566     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031451     Document Type: Article

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