Human preferences are biased towards associative information

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1054-1068

  Trapp, Sabrina ^a   Shenhav, Amitai ^b   Bitzer, Sebastian ^a   Bar, Moshe ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Affect; Novelty; Perception; Prediction; Preference; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE INFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932192763     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2014.966064     Document Type: Article

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