Intuitive judgments about sample size

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 53-71

  Sedlmeier, Peter ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84926107932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614576.003     Document Type: Chapter

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