The Effects of Framing, Reflection, Probability, and Payoff on Risk Preference in Choice Tasks

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 204-231

  Kühberger, Anton ^a   Schulte Mecklenbeck, Michael ^a   Perner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Framing; reflection; risk; probability; payoff.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001002959     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1999.2830     Document Type: Article

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