Need for closure and dealing with uncertainty in decision making context: The role of the behavioral inhibition system and working memory capacity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 126-130

  Czernatowicz Kukuczka, Aneta ^a   Jaśko, Katarzyna ^a   Kossowska, Małgorzata ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behavioral inhibition system; Decision making; Need for closure; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904468854     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.06.013     Document Type: Article

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