Developmental change in partition dependent resource allocation behavior.
Partition dependence, the tendency to distribute choices differently based on the way options are grouped, has important implications for decision making. This phenomenon, observed in adults across a variety of contexts such as allocating resources or making selections from a menu of items, can bias...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 1007 - 1015 |
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