Information sampling in group decision making: Sampling biases and their consequences

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 299-326

  Mojzisch, Andreas ^a   Schulz Hardt, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84926115508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614576.013     Document Type: Chapter

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