Take the Best or Look at the Rest? Factors Influencing "One-Reason" Decision Making

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-65

  Newell, Ben R ^a   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84900396688     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.1.53     Document Type: Article

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