Regular ArticleDiscrepancies Between Normative and Descriptive Models of Decision Making and the Understanding/Acceptance Principle☆,☆☆
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This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to Keith E. Stanovich and a James Madison University Program Faculty Assistance Grant to Richard F. West. Preparation of the manuscript was supported by a Connaught Research Fellowship in the Social Sciences to Keith E. Stanovich. Jonathan Baron, Michael Doherty, and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. The authors thank Walter Sa and Maggie Toplak for assistance in data coding.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Keith E. Stanovich, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6. E-mail:[email protected].
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