Implications and ramifications of a sample-size approach to intuition

Intuition: In Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 149-170

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Kareev, Yaakov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838099     Document Type: Chapter

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