When less is enough: Cognitive aging, information search, and decision quality in consumer choice.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Psychology and Aging

• Publication date

  2010-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0017927PMID 20545414
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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