The interpretative heuristic in insight problem solving

Mind and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-108

  Macchi, Laura ^a   Bagassi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Insight; Interpretative heuristic; Restructuring; Updated bounded rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901679516     PISSN: 15937879     EISSN: 18601839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11299-014-0139-7     Document Type: Article

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