The role of framing, agency and uncertainty in a focus-divide dilemma.
How to prioritise multiple objectives is a common dilemma of daily life. A simple and effective decision rule is to focus resources when the tasks are difficult, and divide when tasks are easy. Nonetheless, in experimental paradigms of this dilemma, participants make highly variable and suboptimal s...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 574 - 595 |
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