Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions

Cognition

Volumn 158, Issue , 2017, Pages 44-55

  Leone, María Juliana ^a,b   Fernandez Slezak, Diego ^c   Golombek, Diego ^b   Sigman, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chess; Circadian rhythms; Decision making; Human chronobiology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPONSE TIME; SLEEP; SPORT; WORKING TIME; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84994000748     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.007     Document Type: Article

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