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Information displays and preference reversals

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Judgment and Decision: Theory and Application

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Individual, Product Class, and Task-Related Factors in Consumer Information Processing

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1980 • 143 citations

Psychological status of the script concept.

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A Behavioral Process Approach to Information Acquisition in Nondurable Purchasing

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Problem solving strategies: A selection mechanism, some implications, and some data

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Risky choice: An examination of information acquisition behavior

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Children's decision strategies and their adaptation to task characteristics

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Pre-Purchase Information Acquisition: Description of a Process Methodology, Research Paradigm, and Pilot Investigation

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Keeping the voter's limits in mind: A cognitive process analysis of decision making in voting.

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Industrial Buyers’ Choice Strategies: A Protocol Analysis

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When feedback is ignored: Disutility of outcome feedback.

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New directions in behavioral process research: Implications for social psychology

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Information acquisition and attribution processes.

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Patterns of Processing in Consumer Information Acquisition

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The role of appraisal purpose: Effects of purpose on information acquisition and utilization

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Some effects on information load on search patterns used to analyze performance reports

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Information search and evaluative processes in decision making: A computer based process tracing study

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Analysis of Predecisional Information Search Patterns

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Verbal Protocols and Direct Observation of Supermarket Shopping Behavior: Some Findings and a Discussion of Methods

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Statistical and subjective weights. Some problems and proposals

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Individual differences in the use of simplification strategies in a complex decision-making task.

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Validity of Information Display Boards: An Assessment Using Longitudinal Data

1980 • 40 citations

Situational influences on linear and nonlinear use of information

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Contextual Factors in the Selection of Strategic Decision Methods

1981 • 24 citations

Comment on "an analysis-of-variance model for the assessment of configural cue utilization in clinical judgment."

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The Use of a Standardized Simulation and Process Tracing for Studying Clinical Problem-Solving Competence

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The Development of Distinct Choice Process Segments over Time: A Stochastic Modeling Approach

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Validity of Information Display Boards: An Assessment Using Longitudinal Data

1980 • 16 citations

Three-Dimensional Information Acquisition: an Application to Contraceptive Decision Making

1983 • 15 citations

A reevaluation of the effect of cue redundancy in multiple-cue probability learning.

1975 • 14 citations

The effects of context on the selection of decision strategies for the cost variance investigation problem

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The Development of Distinct Choice Process Segments over Time: A Stochastic Modeling Approach

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A note on think aloud protocols obtained during the choice of a home

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Positive and negative cue redundancy in multiple cue probability learning

1975 • 7 citations

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1955 • 0 citations