Decisions and strategies in a sequential search experiment
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Decisions and strategies in a sequential search experiment
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Psychology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0167-4870
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4870(99)00038-0