Heuristic bias and conflict detection during thinking

Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-32

  De Neys, Wim ^a,b  

^a Administrateur de l Institut universitaire de France   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Biases; Conflict detection; Decision making; Dual systems; Error detection; Heuristics; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921541494     PISSN: 00797421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.plm.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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