Harder than expected: Increased conflict in clearly disadvantageous delayed choices in a computer game

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Scherbaum, Stefan ^a   Dshemuchadse, Maja ^a   Leiberg, Susanne ^b   Goschke, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GAME; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REWARD; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896737204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079310     Document Type: Article

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