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A Psychophysics Paradigm for the Collection and Analysis of Similarity Judgments

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Is there a decisive test between matching and maximizing?

H Rachlin, L Green, B Tormey

    Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
    |September 1, 1988
    PubMed

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