The combined role of task, child's age and individual differences in understanding decision processes

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 274-285

  Levin, Irwin P ^a   Bossard, Elaine A ^a   Gaeth, Gary J ^a   Yan, Haoyang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Framing effect; Individual differences; Numeracy; Risky decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901654346     PISSN: 19302975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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