Exploring Task Design and Heuristics Interaction Through a Knowledge‐Free Option Generation Task.
Past research on option generation, the mental process of creating possible courses of action for goal‐directed behaviors, focused extensively on the outcomes of the process, specifically, the quantity and quality of options generated. Accordingly, various effects were introduced to describe and cat...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 672 - 683 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2025
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