Deciding How To Decide: Self-Control and Meta-Decision Making.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.013PMID 26483151
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